R.J. Rubadeau has spent the last forty years engaged in a smoldering love affair with boats and books 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 sailing hall of fame. He has entertained generations of sailors with his writings (over a hundred and fifty articles published) 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, fund raiser, 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, where his work has been singled out for the Boat Writers International achievement awards. Rubadeau is also an award winning poet. He is the author of four novels and 2010 will mark the release of his first non-fiction book, Bound For Roque Island: Sailing Maine and the World, and a new novel, Gatsby's Last Resort: A Telluride Murder Mystery. 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 historic seventy-eight year old ketch and primary summer preoccupation, in Mt. Desert Island, Maine.

CONTACT THE AUTHOR AT rubadeau@telluridecolorado.net