Transpac
First overall on corrected time across the 2,225-nautical-mile course.
Selected campaigns
Projects shaped
from sailcloth
to finish line.
Kevin’s role changes with the boat, but the standard does not: connect the people, sails, rating, preparation, and decisions that make a program work.
Classic ocean-racing campaign
Dorade
A 52-foot Sparkman & Stephens yawl from 1929, returned to the ocean races that made her one of sailing’s defining designs.
Dorade’s team identifies Kevin as tactician and sailing master, with responsibility spanning tactics, crew management, rating optimization, and sail and boat development. The work helped translate a historic restoration into a modern, repeatable race program.
Kevin’s contributionTactics · crew leadership · rating optimization · sail and boat development
Newport Bermuda
First in IRC Class 2 and second in ORR Class 2.
Transatlantic & Fastnet
Second in class in both races; seventh overall among 356 boats in the Fastnet.
NYYC Annual Regatta
Won the two-day series with a 1–1–3 scoreline and won the around-island race.
Modern offshore multihull
Extreme H₂O
Pat Benz’s unmistakable bright-green Gunboat 66—and first multihull to finish the 2015 Transpac.
Kevin raced aboard Extreme H₂O on the Los Angeles-to-Honolulu course. The boat finished in 7 days, 19 hours, 25 minutes, 37 seconds, earned the Rudy Choy trophy for first multihull elapsed time, and placed second in ORCA on corrected time.
2015 TranspacFirst multihull elapsed
Rudy Choy Trophy
Sail inventory & optimization
Westerly
A classic Santa Cruz 52 made competitive for a new chapter.
Within a wider optimization effort that included keel and transom-scoop work, Kevin designed and built Westerly’s complete sail inventory at North Sails Channel Islands. The program used the 2023 Newport to Cabo race as a benchmark on the way to Transpac.
“The importance of excellent sails cannot be overstated.”— Dave Moore, Westerly
2023 Newport to Cabo1st in class2nd overall
Read the Westerly project story 800 nautical miles · corrected time
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