Andrew Campbell

US Olympic Sailing Team Website Up and Running

May 16th, 2008 in General.

The new US Sailing Team website: http://www2.ussailing.org/Page4.aspx is up and running. Going into the Games this should have day-to-day updates on the rest of the team and how everybody’s doing and what we’re going through to get ready. I’ll put the link on the sidebar of the website, but feel free to take a look and check out the action.

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New West Marine Article

May 12th, 2008 in General.

Last week was a busy one. I spent a few days at home in San Diego and managed to have two magazine interviews, a magazine photo shoot, two television interviews (one live on KUSI), and still got to spend a mother’s day weekend sailing with Mom and the Javelin J105 team. Here’s a great article put up by John Gregg on WestMarine.com. Have a look.

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Live this Morning on KUSI San Diego

May 9th, 2008 in General.

After a slew of interviews over the last couple of days local San Diego news network KUSI News had me on live this morning at 10am for their Inside San Diego spotlight. Pretty cool, I was right up there with the two anchorwomen. It was sort of an “Anchorman” the movie day today interviewing with the competing San Diego news crews, meeting with the anchors and sports reporters. Check out the video:

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Campbell Sailing.com Update

May 8th, 2008 in General.

Along with the new website configuration and color scheme there is a new link containing all the current video clips available from the campaign currently online. Check it out on the sidebar under Videos or click here.

I’m in San Diego for the end of this week taking care of loose ends, mail, receipts, bills and checks. I’ve had two interviews this morning with Sailing World and with a local magazine Ranch and Coast. Talk about an odd-couple for a pair of interviews on the same morning, but some good San Diego coverage. Have a look. �

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NBC Olympic Sailing Site Up and Running

May 6th, 2008 in General.

The NBC Olympic website is up and running in full force with their sailing database updated and firing on all cylinders. I had an interview with Washington DC’s NBC4 studio last week that should go online after it airs sometime next weekend or the following week. Meanwhile, have a look around at NBCOlympics.com. Apparently I’m athlete #708… not really sure what that means, but I’ll take it.

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Monday Morning Tactician: 5 May 2008

May 5th, 2008 in Monday Morning Tactician.

With the routine so set in place in France last month you might think I was ready to stay. You would be wrong. After a couple of crazy connections and having a bag lost somewhere between Dublin and Philadelphia as I write, I made it back to America safe and sound. Rain greets my arrival in DC, but I’m looking forward to a bit of rest and relaxation this week before ramping up the fitness training again before Holland Regatta mid-May. Hyeres ended up being a successful event and I’m keen to capitalize on the efforts in Europe over the last six weeks as we get into the dog days of the European spring season. At most European events the racing is very intense. The Laser fleet is especially unforgiving in the individual attempts of a hundred and fifty sailors to get around the same marks as fast as they can. Often times those sailors hold little regard for minor rules and other boats. They see an opening, weigh the consequences (and perhaps more often don’t) of their potential actions and then go for it. For this week’s Monday Morning Tactician column I think it needs to be stated and explained that the fastest boat does not always win. Yes, I said it. (more…)

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Series Ends in the Dark

April 25th, 2008 in Regattas.

Streaky and light seabreezes dominated the final day of racing in Hyeres yesterday. Little did we know that the three hours of on-shore postponement would ultimately lead to us getting off the water at just after 830 pm with the sun settling behind the hills of the Riviera. Because we didn’t get off the dock until about 3 o’clock the day felt quite long. The glare worsened through the afternoon making marks and mark changes difficult to interpret. (more…)

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