Dan Mangus Elected New MHC Chairman in January 2004
See:
http://www.ussailing.org/multihull/new_mhc_chair.htm
ART STEVENS NAMED NEW MHC CHAIRMAN
January 2000
Gordon
Isco has brought a wise voice to US SAILING for several years on behalf of multihull
sailors and for the second time around as Chairman of the Multihull Council.
Unfortunately, he concluded recently that he needed to resign for health reasons. We
sincerely regret that Gordon does not feel able to continue as Chairman while continuing
to recuperate from surgery, but know he will be back aboard and around multihulls as soon
as he can. We all wish for him a speedy recovery and all good wishes go to him and wife
Corine.
Gordon
recommended that Vice Chairman Arthur J. Stevens replace him as Council Chair, and the MHC
Executive Committee has endorsed the recommendation. William T. Doelger moves into the
Vice Chair position and Deborah Schaefer remains Secretary of the Council.
For those people who
aren’t that well acquainted with Art, here’s a bit of personal information he
has supplied.
ABOUT
ART STEVENS
“I started sailing just after Nina and I were
married some 34 years ago. We built a trimaran called NINA, a 32' Horstman design, and lived on it for
three years with two kids and a cat. We didn't have any sailing experience so we took
lessons from a local sailor in a Columbia 21 as I recall. In those days the big guns were
the multihull designers and building your own was the only way you got a boat. I more or
less grew up with Art Piver, Norm Cross, Jim Brown and others like Jay Kantola, who, by
the way, was considered the best of the best at the time. I didn't get enough of building
so with my son Wade we built another boat we called Breaststroke.
It was a highly modified Piver 38 with round bottoms and looked very much like a Kantola.
I was Kantola’s representative in the area at the time trying to sell plans. Nina and
I had the first yacht brokerage in California solely devoted to multihulls. It only lasted
a few years as there were few well-built boats around and we wouldn't sell something we
wouldn't go to sea in. You can imagine the hassle we got from sellers with that
philosophy. Remember, this was the late 1960s early 1970s.
“I mostly raced and
cruised offshore with the Ocean Racing Catamaran Association of which I am a Past
President and many times Board member. I have raced twice to Hawaii and won the Transpac
in 1976 taking first to finish and first corrected. I have won the Ensenada race once. I
don't have a list of the races we have won over the years and I don't really feel racing
is the criteria to base my accomplishments in sailing on anyway. There are many others who
are far more experienced in racing then I and, frankly, would rather look to the places I
have been and friends I have made over the years because of sailing as my mark in a
lifelong association with this sport.
“I find I enjoy race
management and event coordination and have a real desire to spread the Gospel of Sailing
to future generations through training and education. I have been coming to the US SAILING
meetings for five or six years and am currently on the training committee and recent Vice
Chair of the Multihull Council. I am Regional Training Coordinator for the Los Angeles
area and a Board Member of King Harbor Yacht Club. I have a seat on the Southern
California Yachting Association as one of two Multihull representatives.
“I have been a
General Contractor in Los Angeles for 22 years which allows me to do the things I do and I
still have Whiplash, my Formula 40, but these
days she is sitting on a trailer after coming back from a movie shoot called Thomas Crown Affair.
“I am looking forward to the challenges
that being Chair of the Multihull Council will provide and am thrilled we are starting the
Fast and Fun Sailing Program. This program is
designed to bring new people, young and old, to the sport and assist those wishing to make
a difference. What great fun we can have getting our youth into sailing. This is the
program that will do just that.
“These rambling thoughts are some of
the things about me over the last 30 years. Hard to pick out those that someone may find
interesting now that I have to do it.”
Art |
