Tiana Mohebi is an ambitious student at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and as a project she chose to profile a fellow student doing this summer’s Van Isle 360. Tiana got in touch with sailish for some journalistic commentary, and I was happy to oblige. Anything to further promote sailing and an event as great and unique as the Van Isle….
Tania along with Nikita Nayak profiled William Blouin-Comeau who is sailing on none other than the new Cheekee Monkee catamaran. Here is the website they created: https://nikitanayak319.wixsite.com/mysite.
It was fun weighing in on the subject, and Tiana did a great job of conveying some of the appeal of both the race and adventure sailing in her presentation. It’s particularly suitable for your non-sailing or casual friends who ask “why do it?” You can listen to the program here.
Best of luck to William Blouin-Comeau. More importantly, good luck to Tiana. She’s clearly one to watch. And we need to get her out on a boat!
Kurt grew up racing and cruising in the Midwest, and has raced Lasers since the late 1970s. Currently he is a broker at Swiftsure Yachts. He has been Assistant Editor at Sailing Magazine and a short stint as Editor of Northwest Yachting. Through Meadow Point Publishing he handles various marketing duties for smaller local companies. He currently is partners on a C&C 36 which he cruises throughout the Northwest. He’s married to the amazing Abby and is father to Ian and Gabe.