8:30 PM - 10:00 PM EST
Sheila McCurdy will add a story to the She Sailor Sea Story series — Broken Glass.
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.
Jennifer Silva Redmond is the author of Honeymoon at Sea: How I Found Myself Living on a Small Boat and a freelance editor. Her essays, articles, and fiction have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, and on sites such as Brevity.
On the staff of the Southern California Writers’ Conference and San Diego Writers, Ink, she was the prose editor for A Year in Ink, vol 3, and a co-founder of the critically acclaimed Sea of Cortez Review. Formerly editor-in-chief of Sunbelt Publications, Jennifer is now their editor-at-large.
She has lived with artist/writer/teacher Russel aboard their sailboat Watchfire, on the West Coast of North America for most of the past 35 years.
Zoom a bit after the She Stories to enjoy the social Happy 1/2 Hour