Sheila 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.).
She’s sailed over 125,000 miles offshore, including ten trans-Atlantics and several Pacific passages.
McCurdy 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.
In 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.”
