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Detroit, MI | From Mary's post on Facebook: Rick White, born April 4, 1937, passed away on January 11, 2017 at Mariners Hospital in Tavernier, Florida after a brief and unexpected battle with non-small-cell lung cancer.
He is best known in the multihull sailing world for his many racing championships, his books and his race-training seminars. But there is so much more.
As a pre-teen he was a champion swimmer doing the butterfly stroke. And as a teenager he started driving trucks at age 14. His father told him to just blend in with the traffic, no faster or slower than the rest.
In high school he was an all-state football player being recruited by numerous colleges. He picked North Carolina, but he broke his neck during the first year, ending that potential career.
After several years as a successful trucking company owner, he sold that and gave up the suits and ties to become a singer-songwriter-entertainer.
His greatest passion was motocross racing. And he even built a track that hosted many motocross championships.
Lived in Vail, Colorado for eight years, where he was an expert powder-hound skier besides being an entertainer. For one summer out there, he worked as a river raft guide on the Colorado River.
He was an airplane pilot (only crashed once) and for boats he had a 500-ton masters license. He worked for several years as a captain taking groups of people on week-long sailing tours of the Bahamas.
In recent years he has been spending his summers at Put-in-Bay, OH, and his winters in Key Largo, FL.
Rick is survived by his wife Mary Wells, his son David White of Key Largo, FL, his daughter Michelle Coyle of Barberton, OH, his brother William White of Plantation, FL. | | |  Re: Rick White - 1937-2017
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Dublin, Ireland | Very sad.I never met Rick or Mary, but both were always so helpful and friendly on this forum. RIP Rick. My condolences to Mary and family.
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Syracuse, NY Hobie Fleet 204 Tom Korz
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Syracuse, NY Hobie Fleet 204 | Eight Bells, we have truly lost one of sailings greats.
Mary
Our deepest condolences from the Korz family.
Rick gave so much to the sport we love.
I will miss him but never forget him.
Hoisting a Nati-Light or 2 in his memory!
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Petten Netherlands | Holy S..., what a sad message and what a shocking loss.
Reading his lifestory fills me with admiration for this unique fellow.
We will miss him enormously on this forum. The last days I had already a sort of misgiving because nothing was done with these damned spamguys.
So my message to these mutants is : get the hell out of this forum.
You are making abuse of the death of the forum moderator.
Also my condolances to Mary and his children. A man as he will be will be missed by you on a cruel way.
Like it will hurt deeply this very special worldwide catsailor forum community. He created this unique group of catsailing addicts!
I'm very glad that Rick opened up this last year in this forum about his personal life.
He talked about his sorrows regarding the sickness of his wife. He also spoke very openly about his financial problems.
Longing his life was an issue for him. He told about that.
I have fear for the future of this forum without him.
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hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?..
"huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Fair winds and Following seas , Rick. You will be greatly missed. Your contribution to the beachcat community is immeasurable. Godspeed my friend.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
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Kingston SE South Australia | Very sad, this top bloke helped me establish junior sailing at my club, full of tips to help my sailing, I have a very dog eared copy of his book and the CDs, already miss him RIP Rick
Jeff Southall
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Petten Netherlands | In memoriam. Rick, you deserve the first place in the openforum list.
ronald
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hey boy, what did you do over there, alone far out at sea?..
"huh....., that's the only place where I'm happy, sir.
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Israel, Sdot Yam | Rick came to Israel several years ago to give us an unforgettable on the water seminar. A truely great teacher who influenced many of us. Just last week I was admonished by my crew to "RickWhite" the tack...
RIP
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Kingston SE South Australia | Rick came to Israel several years ago to give us an unforgettable on the water seminar. A truely great teacher who influenced many of us. Just last week I was admonished by my crew to "RickWhite" the tack...
RIP
Jeff Southall
Current boats
Nacra 5.8 1703 Animal Scanning Services
Nacra 5.8 1667 Ram Raider
Nacra 18 Square
Arrow 1576
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Kingston SE South Australia | Rick came to Israel several years ago to give us an unforgettable on the water seminar. A truely great teacher who influenced many of us. Just last week I was admonished by my crew to "RickWhite" the tack...
RIP
Jeff Southall
Current boats
Nacra 5.8 1703 Animal Scanning Services
Nacra 5.8 1667 Ram Raider
Nacra 18 Square
Arrow 1576
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