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(Peter uses his sextant aboard PYEWACKET in the 2003 Transpac Race to Hawaii)

Major Career Highlights:

bullettwo-time America's Cup winning Navigator (Stars & Stripes) '87 & '88
bulletFive America's Cup campaigns (Stars & Stripes and BMW Oracle Racing) '87,'88,'00, '03, & '07
bulletIntercollegiate Sailor of the Year, 1976 (Yale University)
bullettop ranked American on the pro match racing tour (1987 - 1992)
bulletwinning skipper at pro match racing tour events in NZL, Bermuda, NY, France, & UK.
bulletUS National Team Racing Champion
bulletWorld Champion - Maxi One Design 1997 - tactician/helm - Nicorette
bullet1st place,  Newport - Bermuda Race 1998 -  watch captain -  Blue Yankee
bullet3 time ULDB 70 fleet champion - tactician & navigator - Evolution
bullet1st overall,  SF - Hawaii - 2004 Pacific Cup - navigator - Winnetou
bullet1st to finish, Ft. Lauderdale - Jamaica - 2005 Pineapple Cup - tactician - Titan (set new race record)
bullet1st to finish, Transpacific Yacht Race 2005 (LA - Honolulu) - navigator - Morning Glory (set new race record)
bullet1st to finish, Marblehead - Halifax Ocean Race 2007 - watch captain - Blue Yankee
bullet1st place, Newport Beach - Cabo San Lucas Ocean Race 2008 - navigator - Pendragon

Other events of note:

 

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2005 Caribbean Race Weeks winner (St. Marten, St. Thomas, BVI, & Antigua)  Tactician - Titan

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2005 1st place Copa del Rey , Navigator, Lexus-Quantum Racing

bullet2004 IMS Worlds - Talisman - navigator/afterguard - 1st, offshore race
bullet2004 Key West Race Week - Talisman - navigator/afterguard - 1st 
bullet2003 1D35 West Coast Championships - Jacaibon- tactician - 1st
bullet2003 San Francisco Challenge Cup - skipper - 1st
bullet2003 Transpac - Pyewacket - navigator - 2nd to finish
bullet2003 Newport - Ensenada Race - Pyewacket - navigator - 1st to finish & set record!
bullet2003 San Diego Etchells Fleet Season champion (with Artie Means & Will Stout co-skippering)
bullet2002 Auckland, NZL - Stars & Stripes - afterguard - quarter finalist Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Trials
bullet2001-2002,  Volvo Ocean Race - Team News Corp - navigator/tactician (legs 3 & 9)
bullet2001 Farr 40 West Coast Season Championships - Revolution - tactician - 3rd
bullet2001 Key West Race Week -Farr 40 class  Revolution - tactician - 3rd place
bullet2001 Ft. Lauderdale - Montego Bay, Jamaica - Blue Yankee - watch captain - 3rd place
bullet2001 Etchells Midwinters West - San Diego - skipper - 1st place
bullet2001 San Diego NOOD Regatta - Etchells class - skipper - 1st place 
bullet2001 San Francisco NOOD Regatta - Farr 40 class Revolution - tactician - 1st place
bullet2000 Auckland, NZL - Stars & Stripes - afterguard - 3rd place Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Trials
bullet2000 San Diego - Puerto Vallarta - Evolution - navigator/tactician -  2nd place
bullet2000 Newport - Bermuda Race - Blue Yankee - watch captain - 3rd to finish
bullet2000 Etchells World Championships (Third overall with three consecutive first place finishes with team mates Steve Grillon & Artie Means)
bullet2000 SORC - Miami -  Esmeralda - tactician - 1st place
bulletSan Francisco Perpetual Cup - skipper - 1st place (1998, 2000,2001 & 2003)

Photos from 2007 America's Cup in Valencia Spain courtesy Gilles Martin-Raget

Photos from 2003 America's Cup in Auckland

 

 

 

NC9718.jpg (51391 bytes)Photos from the Transatlantic Training Run aboard the Volvo Ocean 60 Team News Corp courtesy of and copyright Richard Langdon

 

 

 

1011124PI72.jpg (74349 bytes)Photos from the 1999 - 2000 America's Cup Trials in Auckland courtesy of and copyright Barbara Martin  

 

 

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