Bound For Roque Island

Sailor, cruiser, ocean racer, professional captain, Cape Horn veteran, and award-winning writer, R.J. Rubadeau has been a fixture on the international yachting scene for four decades. From his first ocean race in 1970 through his epic Cape Horn expedition in 2007, Rubadeau has shared his humorous and informative narratives with generations of appreciative sailors and dreamers. Bound for Roque Island: Sailing Maine and the World is high adventure and practical advice served family-style.

R.J. Rubadeau has spent the last forty years engaged in a smoldering love affair with boats and the wonderful things they do for a person’s soul. Logging over 150,000 sea miles during an amateur and professional career in the elite world of open ocean racing aboard the world’s legendary yachts, the author has sailed with and against the icons of the international sailing hall of fame. He has entertained generations of sailors with his writings about the crazy trouble people can get into when they cast off dock lines and go sailing. Rubadeau has honed his communication skills in various shore-side occupations: university lecturer, grant writer, newspaper columnist, politician, speech-writer for an Alaskan governor (No, not that one!), public policy analyst, and twenty years as a professional political strategist. He is a frequent contributor to many sailing magazines and is also an award winning poet.
Rubadeau and his wife Mary, best friends and partners since their teens, live with their horses and a menagerie of animals at ten-thousand feet in the Rocky Mountains near the town of Telluride, Colorado. They base Dog Star, their family’s history seventy-nine year old ketch and primary summer preoccupation, on Mt. Desert Island in Maine.