Sailing Resume

Racing experience

Member of the Mendota Yacht Club (Madison, WI, USA) in 2017 and 2018. Wednesday evening & Sunday (2) races from June to August. Sunday races in May and September.

  • 2018: co-skipper of a J/24, helmsman. Season result: 3rd of the light keelboat division
  • 2017 (half-season): skipper of a E-scow (8.5m dinghy with asymmetrical spinnaker)
  • Few races on a Tartan-10 (10m keelboat). Bowman or main trimmer.

General sailing experience

  • 2016-2018: Member of the Hoofer Sailing Club, the student-run sailing club of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  • Summer 2018: Hoofer Sailing Club instructor for J/24 spinnaker lessons.

  • 2 bareboat charters as crew, with a total of 4 nights at anchor (Apostles Islands, Lake Superior, WI, USA)

  • Repaired a J/24 bent keel, refit a J/24 for racing: rebuilt traveler car, outhaul, jib downhaul

References

  • Pete Mooney, Mendota Yacht Club Vice-Commodore and long-time Hoofer instructor. pete@mooney.ws
  • David Elsmo, Sailing Program Manager at UW-Madison and Director of the Mendota Yacht Club. david.elsmo@wisc.edu
Olivier Huber
Olivier Huber
Post-doc in Optimization

My research interests include application of variational inequalities and convex analysis to physical or economical problems