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A Nice Fifth Place Finish in the OYRA Farallon Debut

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June 15th, 2019 (Tiburon, CA) Memo Gidley and his crew of 7 had a great fifth place finish in last weekend’s OYRA Farallones Race. The Farallon Islands are known for their abundance of marine life, including being the breeding ground for the great white shark! The islands are 25 miles outside of the Golden Gate Bridge. The ocean swells can become very large, around here, and when the large swells meet the shallower waters of the islands, huge breaking waves …Continue reading

My mom’s movie, The Raft, releases tomorrow!

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In 1973, my mom, Mary Gidley, was picked as the navigator on a raft that drifted across the Atlantic Ocean with no power and 11 people on board! The idea was for a controversial Mexican anthropologist, Santiago Genovés, to see and document the conflict that six men and seven women would face over 3-month drift across the Atlantic Ocean. I thought my racing career and lifestyle of speed was adventurous, but compared to what my mom did when she was …Continue reading

The Gidleys are Featured in Latitude 38!

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June 3, 2019 (Tiburon, CA) Latitude 38, a Northern California-based sailing magazine with a worldwide reach, recently published the first part of an interview with Mary Gidley and her son, Memo Gidley. The article, titled “The Gidley’s of Sausalito”, is featured in the June 2019 issue of the publication. Latitude 38 writer, Christine Weaver, starts at the beginning when Mary and her late-husband, Cass Gidley, first met in the 1950’s, including how they established themselves in the Sausalito boating community …Continue reading

Sailboat Racing Update

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May 28, 2019 (Tiburon, CA) Just getting everybody updated on my other racing sport … sailboat racing! This past season has definitely been the best year we’ve had racing “Basic Instinct”, my New Zealand designed and built Elliott 1050, and I’m very proud of what my team has accomplished. To all the car racers out there, racing sailboats is every bit as intense and difficult as racing cars. We fight for tenths of a knot (speed) verses tenths of a …Continue reading

Car Racing Update

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Blame it on anything, but the bottom line is that I have been very busy racing so this update has taken a while to send out. Sorry for that! I had a great time in 2018 driving for FMO Racing in their Norma LMP3 in the IMSA series.  The team, led by Brian Garzelli at CTC Motorsports based out of Sonoma Raceway, included a strong group of talented and hardworking people who made my experience, and our results, great.  I was …Continue reading