“On the technical side of sailing, I ran IOR certificates for USYRU (before it became US Sailing) for a couple years after college. My brother Ian is a naval architect who worked for Dad…a family cannot afford more than two yacht designers! It seemed miraculous that the mechanical device could take measurements from the drawing and with a few additional calculations one could get a very close approximation of the amount of lead required for ballast. “As a teenager, I was once tasked with determining the volume of a keel using a planimeter. “I worked in Dad’s office, McCurdy and Rhodes Inc., on rare occasions when they were shorthanded,” she explains. Sheila is the daughter of yacht designer Jim McCurdy. My first boat was a Laser, which I owned for a short while in the early ‘70s.” I did go to junior sailing at the Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club, learned the names of all the parts, and raced in Blue Jays. “I was taken cruising with my parents, older brother and sister at three months old. Maritime Service, Ret.) in Middletown, Rhode Island. “I grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, a lovely harbor on the North Shore of Long Island,” says Sheila, who lives with her husband Dave Brown (Rear Admiral, U.S.
Naval Academy Sailing Program, a Maritime Studies Advisor to SUNY Maritime College, a past Director and Interim Executive Director of the Museum of Yachting, an executive committee member at Mystic Seaport Museum, longtime mainstay of US Sailing, an authorized Safety at Sea Seminar moderator (and much, much more!), Sheila McCurdy is a sailing icon. Nye Trophy), a New York Yacht Club Race Committee member, a member of the Fales Committee of the U.S.
The first female Commodore of the Cruising Club of America (and recipient of the club’s prestigious Richard S.
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