R.J. Rubadeau

R. J. Rubadeau is an award winning author, journalist, columnist and poet. His career as a professional blue water sailor has been chronicled by nearly a hundred articles published in over four decades in the world’s sailing periodicals. His two memoirs Bound for Roque Island and Bound for Cape Horn Rubadeau celebrate a lifetime at sea with family and friends.

Rubadeau has honed his communication and writing skills in various shore-side occupations: university lecturer, grant writer, newspaper columnist, politician, speech-writer for an Alaskan governor (No, not that one!), public policy analyst, and forty years as a professional political strategist. 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 Durango, Colorado. They base Dog Star, their family’s historic ninety-three-year-old wooden ketch, and primary summer preoccupation, in Rockport, Maine.