Truly a huge loss for sailing. Oley was always at the pointy end of the whichever fleet he was in, but he always made the time to help/educate/theorize about anything to do with beachcat sailing and sailors. Ambassador is the best descriptor.
We will miss him terribly and should strive to follow his example.
We met Oley at Out Back in 2008. He and Joanna sat with Barbie and me and we just talked about all sorts of things, mostly not sailing related. We had never met other than accross the water at a few regattas.
He obviously was very intense about his sailing, but he had interests beyond that as well.
Forget fair winds and following seas.....I hope it's blowin' stink and he just rolled the devil and has a lee bow on God hisself.
