NAME: Mark Paster

HOMETOWN: Annapolis, MD                         BIRTHDATE: July 27, 1949

#YRS. SAILING: All my life

US SAILING #: 721284Y

CPR/FIRST AID CURRENT THROUGH: 12-20-16

CERTIFICATIONS: US Sailing Basic Keelboat Instructor, US Sailing BK Performance Sailing

NOTABLE SAILING EVENTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS (RACING/OFFSHORE CRUISING):

J-80 Annapolis NOODS as crew in 2014

J-80 Worlds as crew in 2015

Annapolis Solomon’s Island Race as Crew on a J-120

 

WHERE HAVE YOU SAILED: Chesapeake Bay, Coast of Mane, Long Island Sound, Newport RI, Chicago, New Jersey Shore, Cape Cod, BVI’s, Portugal

 

MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE:

Collegiate dinghy racing in Annapolis in 20 KT winds

Sailing in the BVI’s with the J-World flotilla

 

WHAT I LIKE MOST ABOUT TEACHING SAILING:

Meeting great people and helping them to learn and become passionate abut sailing.