Australian Casey Smith has just completed his first Volvo Ocean Race as bowman aboard PUMA which finished the gruelling 37,000 nautical mile 2008-09 race in second place.
Smith hails from the small town of Mooloolaba located on the east coast of Australia in the sunny state of Queensland. He started his sailing as a young fellow racing Sabots then progressed to skiffs before moving into the big boat scene in his 20s. Trained as a sail maker and with time on the water as a key member of the maxi-yacht Skandia campaign, some Sydney to Hobart races and fine tuning his skills with the US Pegasus team training in the Star, Finn and Etchells classes, his big break came in 2008 when he was selected for the PUMA team.
