Gary Jobson

Who is Gary Jobson?

Gary Jobson is a world class sailor, television commentator and author based in Annapolis, Maryland. He is a Vice President of the International Sailing Federation. Gary has authored 19 sailing books and is Editor at Large of Sailing World and Cruising World magazines. He is President of the National Sailing Hall of Fame.

Jobson covered the 34th America’s Cup for NBC. He won an A.C.E. for the 1987 America's Cup on ESPN. In 1988 Jobson won an Emmy for his production of sailing at the Olympic Games in South Korea, and won an Emmy for the 2006 Volvo Ocean Race on PBS. His newest book is Chasing Roosters A Century of Sailing on Barnegat Bay. In 2013 Jobson was presented a Telly Award for Unfurling the World The Voyages of Irving and Electa Johnson.

He has won many championships in one design classes, the America’s Cup with Ted Turner, the infamous Fastnet Race and many of the world’s ocean races. In college at SUNY Maritime he was an All American sailor three times and was twice named College Sailor of the Year. Gary is also an active cruising sailor. He has led ambitious expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctica and Cape Horn.