Staff & Crew
Vince Casalaina
Producer
Vincent Casalaina has been covering sailboat racing on San Francisco Bay and around the world since 1985. He’s won two Emmy’s for Sports Programming. The first for his co-production of White on Water aired on KQED covering the 1985 Big Boat Series regatta at the St. Francis Yacht Club and the second for the 1996 Citibank Regatta series at PIER 39 aired on Fox Sports Bay Area cable channel.
He’s been team videographer for three America’s Cup campaigns (USA 1982-83, AmericaOne 1998-2000 & Oracle Racing 2001-2002) and covered the US Olympic Sailing Trials twice (2000 & 2004). He produced and directed a documentary on the 90 year old one design Snipe Class (2008). He was the shooter for coverage of the Louis Vuitton Series in San Diego (ESPN 1988) and America’s Cup Regatta featuring 45’ catamarans on San Francisco Bay (Ocracle Racing 2011).
He was the head of the American Youth Sailing Force’s campaign for the 2013 Youth America’s Cup on San Francisco Bay. He produced and directed the early videos for the team before Sam Green came on board as team videographer.
All of Vincent Casalaina’s work has been premised on the concept that compelling story lines combined with exciting up close and personal footage of sailboats competing in close quarters will attract a following. Clips about Melges 32, 505 and Snipe Worlds as well as 18’ skiff racing and the US Sailing West Marine Open Regatta are available on YouTube. All of his sailing clips have garnered more than 750,000 views.
Television Background
Vincent Casalaina started working in television as a studio director in San Francisco with his ground breaking late night series Went Like it Came in 1974-75. He followed up on that success with docudramas and music programming for home distribution.
From 1977 to 1982 he directed Over Easy, a daily PBS entertainment / informational show with host Hugh Downs that was produced at KQED. He received an Emmy nomination for his direction of the series.
He transitioned to single camera documentary and sports production and has been happy in that role since then. He was the principle producer/director of UC’s Graduate School of Journalism for 12 years and later for Berkeley Multimedia Research Center and was adjunct lecturer in both positions. He was Director of Video Operations for a start up in San Francisco.
Sailing/Racing Background
Vincent Casalaina started sailing in high school sailing around Newport Beach California where he had spent summers with his family. His first boat was a Sabot.
When he moved to Berkeley to go to college, he crewed on many different one design boats working up from J24’s to Islander 28’s and Express 37’s. He also crewed on IOR boats and offshore racers.
He found his passion in the Snipe, a two person two sail dinghy. He sailed with both his son and later his daughter. He’s been fleet captain off and on for 30 years. In their own right, his son and daughter were two time Snipe Jr. National Champions.
He still actively races Snipes as well as crews on larger boats.
Gary Jobson
Host/Narrator
As a sailor, Gary Jobson has enjoyed a long and successful career in boats small and large. He was twice named College Sailor of the Year. He has won many of the world’s offshore races, and he was tactician on the winning America’sCup yacht, Courageous, in 1977, with skipper Ted Turner. His first on camera role was as Host for Casalaina’s first documentary, A Sailors Dream. Since then, Jobson has narrated or produced 1,200 television programs and films and has competed in 6,000 races.
Jobson spent 31 years with ESPN covering nine America’s Cup events and producing many documentaries. He has covered seven Olympics and an America’s Cup for NBC, most recently Paris 2024. For his work in television, Jobson has been presented with three Emmys, six Tellys and an ACE Award.
He is Co-Chair of the National Sailing Hall of Fame and a Past President of US Sailing, America’s governing body of sailing, and Past Vice President of World Sailing. He was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame (2011) and the America’s Cup Hall of Fame (2003) by the Herreshoff Marine Museum. In 1999 he won the Nathanael G. Herreshoff Trophy, US SAILING’s most prestigious award.
Ranger Peter Kasin (ret.)
Musical Director
Peter has been active in the world of sea music for more than 30 years now. He plays with the band Nauticus and with the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers.
He still leads the Chantey Sing at Hyde Street Pier the first Saturday of every month and organizes the San Francisco Maritime Museum Sea Music Festival. For many years they were held aboard vessels at the Hyde St. Pier. Today they are a mix of live sings at the San Francisco Maritime Museum and virtual sings.
Peter has contributed to many Sea Chantey books and recordings including San Francisco shanties and sea songs of California’s gold rush.
Crew Credits
Newsletter
A.I. Consultant
Drone Operator
Mike Fratantoro
William Pryor
Don Wieneke
Dave Horn
Drone Support Boat
Brent Draney – Owner
Theo Rohr – Driver
Chris Davis – Driver
On the Water Spotter
Stephanie Love-Wilson
Joe Rockmore
Photographers
Arques School of Wooden Boat Building
Martha Blanchfield
Sharon Green
Peter Lyons
Lyon Omohundro
Chris Ray
John Riise
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Tim Sell
John Skoriak
Spaulding Marine Center
Video Footage
Maritime Preservation Trust
Hart L. Weaver Film Collection
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Luther Greene
Production Assistant
John Bechtol
Sophie Salvador-Roam
Miriam Casalaina
Serenah Whitney