I am very thankful to Mark Chew from SouthernWoodenBoatSailing for this article on a bit of my history along with the SailGP article we ran last week. That’s now two fine publications – The Loose Cannon being the other, who have run profiles on the latest goings on with me. I expect Craig Luwick to be calling any day now…
How the hell Mark dug up that photo of me is a mystery. It was a Halloween Regatta from way back, and I was the Pope as a pimp. With enough alcohol, it almost made sense!
Some of you may know of Scot Tempesta as one of the original punk rockers of the sailing internet.
Scot founded Sailing Anarchy in 2002 on the USA west coast, and it went on to hit a cultural high-water mark around the time of the 33rd America’s Cup, At that time the site had 400,000 unique visitors each month. I thought little old SWS was going ok with 20,000 visitors each month.
It has always been a refreshingly, irreverent alternative to buttoned-up sailing media and even if you didn’t embrace Scot’s tone, you still had to take on board his opinions if you wanted to be a serious player. Read on.
