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DESCRIPTION:She Sailor Sea Story\n\n04/24/26 08:30 PM EST\n - 04/24/26 10:00 PM EST\Description:\nSheila McCurdy is the author of the soon to be published High Seas and Home Waters: The Centennial History of the Cruising Club of America. She is also the vice chair of the Board of Trustees of Mystic Seaport Museum, a board member of Storm Trysail Club, and only female commodore (so far) of the Cruising Club of America. She races and cruises her 38-foot sloop, Selkie, designed by her father Jim McCurdy and co-owned by her husband RADM David Brown, (USMS ret.).\n\nShe’s sailed over 125,000 miles offshore, including ten trans-Atlantics and several Pacific passages.\n\nMcCurdy advised the US Naval Academy Sailing for 20 years, ran the US Sailing Association’s national faculty for 13 years, and received the BoatUS / NWSA Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award in 2018. She is a long-standing moderator for Safety at Sea courses and holds a US Coast Guard 100-ton master’s license and a master’s degree in Marine Affairs. \n\nIn addition to her decades of writing and teaching, she recently edited “Adventurous Use of the Sea, Formidable Stories of a Century of Sailing from the Cruising Club of America.”\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:She Sailor Sea Story<br /><br />04/24/26 08:30 PM EST - 04/24/26 10:00 PM EST<br />Description:<br /><p>Sheila McCurdy is the author of the soon to be published <em>High Seas and Home Waters: The Centennial History of the Cruising Club of America</em>. She is also the vice chair of the Board of Trustees of Mystic Seaport Museum, a board member of Storm Trysail Club, and only female commodore (so far) of the Cruising Club of America. She races and cruises her 38-foot sloop, <em>Selkie, </em>designed by her father Jim McCurdy and co-owned by her husband RADM David Brown, (USMS ret.).</p>

<p>She&rsquo;s sailed over 125,000 miles offshore, including ten trans-Atlantics and several Pacific passages.</p>

<p>McCurdy advised the US Naval Academy Sailing for 20 years, ran the US Sailing Association&rsquo;s national faculty for 13 years, and received the BoatUS / NWSA Leadership in Women&rsquo;s Sailing Award in 2018. She is a long-standing moderator for Safety at Sea courses and holds a US Coast Guard 100-ton master&rsquo;s license and a master&rsquo;s degree in Marine Affairs.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In addition to her decades of writing and teaching, she recently edited &ldquo;Adventurous Use of the Sea, Formidable Stories of a Century of Sailing from the Cruising Club of America.&rdquo;</p>

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