David Dellenbaugh is the publisher, editor and author of Speed & Smarts, the racing newsletter. He was the tactician and starting helmsman on America3 during her successful defense of the America's Cup in 1992 and sailed in three other America's Cup campaigns from 1986 to 2007. David is also a Lightning world champion, two-time Congressional Cup winner, seven-time Thistle national champion, two-time winner of the Canada's Cup, three-time Prince of Wales U.S. match racing champion and past winner of the U.S. Team Racing Championship for the Hinman Trophy.
Dellenbaugh was an associate editor of Sailing World and the original author of its popular Around The Buoys column. He is a co-author of Smallboat Sailing, published by Sports Illustrated, and wrote and narrated the Learn The Racing Rules online learning program. As director of marketing for North Sails, David helped write the North U. Fast, Smart, One-Design and Cruising courses. He is currently a member of the US Sailing Racing Rules Committee (and was its chairman from 2005-2008). As a board member of the Southport Sailing Foundation, he created the CleverPig website for aspiring young racing sailors. David also does clinics, seminars and a lot of coaching; he was a coach for the US Olympic Sailing Team during the 2012 Olympic Games in London and the 2016 Olympics and 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio.
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Joanne DeLuca is the Speed & Smarts office manager. Joanne handles the subscriber database and all customer service functions. Basically, Joanne does all the jobs that are necessary to keep things running smoothly.
Brad Dellenbaugh is the newsletter artist. Brad's technical, helpful and humorous drawings have appeared in every issue of Speed & Smarts, plus many other publications and places. Brad was formerly the Sailing Director for the New York Yacht Club, an Olympic Soling campaigner and the chief umpire at the 2007 America's Cup in Valencia.
JH Peterson has been the unofficial Speed & Smarts photographer ever since the newsletter's first issue came out in 1994. Most of the photos that have appeared in the newsletter were taken by JH. He has photographed most of the leading sailing events in North America for more than three decades and is a regular contributor to SAIL and Sailing World. JH has covered countless one-design regattas, from Optis to TP52s to Olympic classes, including dozens of Midwinter, North American and World Championships, as well as hundreds of offshore events, like the Newport-Bermuda, SF Big Boat Series, most all the Key West Race Weeks over the past two decades and seven America's Cup campaigns.