The Gidleys of Sausalito – Part 2!
July 21, 2019 (Tiburon, CA) The second part of “The Gidleys of Sausalito” is now available in the July 2019 issue of Latitude38 magazine! Check it out on pages 58-59! Link, here.
Tag: sailing
My mom’s movie, The Raft, releases tomorrow!
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!
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
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