Inspiring Others to do the Impossible
Born and raised in Northern California, Randall Reeves, 57, grew up reading and dreaming of the sea. He learned to sail on the rivers of central California and often “borrowed” the family sailboat for solo ventures to the San Francisco Bay. These turned out to be formative escapades. While in college, Randall interviewed world-famous solo sailor, Bernard Moitessier, for his campus radio station, a meeting that changed his life.
Reeves’s blue-water sailing began in 2006 when he crewed on a 40-foot boat for a 26-day, 3,000-mile passage from Hawaii to British Columbia. He was hooked. Future adventures included crewing the Northwest passage and solo voyages from Kodiak, Alaska to Hawaii and back to his home in San Francisco.
Throughout his travels, Reeves paints the story of his adventures to a passionate community of “virtual stowaways” in the hopes of inspiring others to do more than they ever thought possible.
Prior to making adventure his full-time pursuit, Reeves served as a general manager for Millennium Restaurant and other Joi de Vivre properties in San Francisco, spent 11 years in senior leadership at OpenTable and held a C-level position at a company building tech solutions for the food service industry.
Recent Passages
2018/19, Figure 8 Voyage complete, solo, 40,000 miles
2017/18, Figure 8 Voyage attempt, solo, 25,000 miles
2016 Pacific Loop, Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, San Francisco, solo, 7,000 miles
2014 Northwest Passage, Nuuk, Greenland to Nome, Alaska, crewed, 6,000 miles
2013 Vancouver Island Circumnavigation, crewed, 600 miles
2010-12 Pacific Loop, Mexico, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Alaska, San Francisco, solo, 13,000 miles