{"id":1438,"date":"2012-07-18T16:54:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T20:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2012-08-02T22:32:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T02:32:59","slug":"dave-erwin-july-2012-us-sailing-sailor-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/dave-erwin-july-2012-us-sailing-sailor-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Erwin: July 2012, US Sailing – Sailor of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Erwin\u00a0– Sailor of the Week<\/strong>
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\nDave Erwin of Destrehan, La. won five consecutive J\/30 North American Championships between 2001 and 2006. However, Dave\u2019s true impact on the sport has come through his leadership and communication skills with sailors in the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

Dave has fond memories of growing up sailing in Texas at Fort Worth Boat Club on Eagle Mountain Lake and South Padre Island. Over 20 years ago, Dave moved to New Orleans and started one-design sailing a J\/30 named Zephyr.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team raced together for such a long period of time that communication happened without speech,\u201d explained Dave. \u201cWe started thinking alike knowing each other’s next move.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2002, Dave recruited a volunteer team to develop the New Orleans Yacht Club website and social media channels. \u201cWe discovered that it was easy capturing the sailors\u2019 attention, but finding new sailors was a challenge,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn’t yacht clubs that we were marketing. It was the experience of sailing.\u201d<\/p>\n

They started shooting video of Wednesday Night Racing, posting this footage on YouTube and sharing through Facebook.<\/p>\n

Dave and his team of volunteers created their first Family Regatta this year. \u201cTo build the sport, we have to keep parents interested too,\u201d added Dave. Also, another more recent marketing campaign Dave is working on focuses on big boat mentors for junior sailors.<\/p>\n

Dave created a forum on the NOYC website to help everyone collaborate and communicate on events, ideas and issues. \u201cThis empowered people to spread the word about sailing,\u201d mentioned Dave. \u201cEveryone had a voice. What I didn’t know is that the forum would become the means to communicate across the Gulf Yachting Association and beyond.\u201d Dave also pointed out that the message board became a reliable source for news and information after Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n

Dave is looking forward to his role as the Chairman for the 2012 J\/30 North American Championship in New Orleans on Oct. 18-21. Learn more about this Championship at http:\/\/noyc.org\/wordpress\/2012-j30-north-americans\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: US Sailing Website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Congratulations Dave! You’re an asset to the J\/30 Class and the sailing community!
\nBill Kneller<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Erwin – Sailor of the Week Dave Erwin of Destrehan, La. won five consecutive J\/30 North American Championships between 2001 and 2006. However, Dave\u2019s true impact on the sport has come through his leadership and communication skills with sailors in the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

Dave has fond memories of growing up sailing in Texas at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news","category-list","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}