{"id":3546,"date":"2022-12-05T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2022-12-15T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T19:01:10","slug":"vincent-casalaina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/vincent-casalaina\/","title":{"rendered":"Videographer Vincent Casalaina"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vincent Casalaina has been covering sailboat racing on San Francisco Bay and around the world since 1985.\u00a0He\u2019s won two Emmy\u2019s for Sports Programming. The first for\u00a0his co-production of\u00a0White on Water aired on KQED covering\u00a0the\u00a01985 Big Boat Series Regatta at the St. Francis Yacht\u00a0Club and the\u00a0second for the\u00a01996 Citibank Regatta series at PIER 39\u00a0aired on Fox Sports Bay Area cable channel. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s\u00a0been team videographer for three\u00a0America\u2019s Cup campaigns\u00a0(USA 1982-83, AmericaOne 1998-2000 &amp; Oracle Racing\u00a02001-2002)\u00a0and covered the US Olympic Sailing Trials twice\u00a0(2000 &amp; 2004). He\u00a0produced and directed\u00a0a documentary on the\u00a090 year old\u00a0one design Snipe\u00a0Class\u00a0(2008). <br>He was the shooter for\u00a0coverage of the\u00a0Louis Vuitton Series in San Diego (ESPN 1988) and\u00a0America\u2019s Cup\u00a0Regatta\u00a0featuring\u00a045\u2019\u00a0catamarans\u00a0on San Francisco Bay\u00a0(Oracle Racing 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Audio 193) Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Rick Tittle: Tom Slingsby, Vincent Casalaina\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/779106005?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was the head of the American Youth Sailing Force\u2019s campaign for the 2013 Youth America\u2019s Cup on San Francisco Bay. He produced and directed the early videos for the team before Sam Green came on board as team videographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of Vincent\u00a0Casalaina\u2019s\u00a0work has been premised on the concept that compelling story lines combined with exciting up close and personal footage of sailboats\u00a0competing in close quarters will attract a following. \u00a0Clips\u00a0about\u00a0Melges32, 505\u00a0and\u00a0Snipe\u00a0Worlds as well as\u00a018\u2019 skiff\u00a0racing\u00a0and the US Sailing West Marine Open Regatta are\u00a0available on\u00a0YouTube.\u00a0All of\u00a0his sailing clips have garnered more\u00a0than\u00a0750,000\u00a0views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USA 30 years old\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fjun5WMXSc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">USA and America One<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AC45 - San Francisco: Oracle Racing capsizes, Press conference\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nasx34R1jaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">AC45 \u2013 San Francisco Oracle Racing capsize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Big Breeze, Small Errors, Big Crash\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KCM2bizpQOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Big Breeze, Small Errors, Big Crash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/VinceSail?feature=mhee\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/VinceSail?feature=mhee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Dw1VAaICTw8\"> https:\/\/youtu.be\/Dw1VAaICTw8 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Television\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vincent Casalaina started working in television as a studio director\u00a0in San Francisco\u00a0with his\u00a0ground breaking\u00a0late night series Went Like it Came in 1974-75\u00a0(24 episodes, final show KTVU 1975). \u00a0He followed up on that success with\u00a0directing\u00a0docudramas\u00a0(KPIX 1977\u00a0show won Emmy + ABA Silver Gavel)\u00a0and music programming for home distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 1977 to 1982 he directed Over Easy, a daily PBS entertainment\u00a0\/informational show with host Hugh Downs\u00a0and\u00a0produced at KQED. \u00a0He received an Emmy nomination for his\u00a0direction of\u00a0the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He transitioned to single camera documentary and sports production and has been happy in that role since then. \u00a0He\u00a0was the\u00a0principal\u00a0producer\/director\u00a0of UCBerkeley\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism\u00a0for 12 years\u00a0and\u00a0later for\u00a0the\u00a0Berkeley Multimedia Research Center. He\u00a0was adjunct lecturer\u00a0for five classes during his\u00a0tenure at Cal.\u00a0He was\u00a0Director of Video Operations for a start up in San Francisco\u00a0in 2001-02.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sailing<\/strong><strong>\/Racing<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vincent Casalaina started\u00a0sailing in high school. He\u00a0sailed\u00a0in the\u00a0Newport Beach California\u00a0inner harbor\u00a0where he had spent summers with his family\u00a0in Costa Meas. \u00a0His first boat was a Sabot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he moved to Berkeley to go to college,\u00a0he crewed on many different one design boats working up from J24\u2019s to\u00a0Catalina 27\u2019s to\u00a0Islander 28\u2019s and\u00a0finally\u00a0Express\u00a037\u2019s. He also crewed on IOR boats and offshore racers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He found his passion in the Snipe, a\u00a0two person\u00a0two sail dinghy. \u00a0He\u00a0raced with both his son and later his daughter\u00a0in his Snipe. \u00a0He\u2019s been fleet captain off and on for 30 years. In their own right, his son and daughter were\u00a0two time\u00a0Snipe Jr. National Champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He still actively races Snipes as well as crews on larger boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his spare\u00a0time\u00a0he cruises San Francisco Bay on his DuFour 27<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Casalaina has been covering sailboat racing on San Francisco Bay and around the world since 1985.\u00a0He\u2019s won two Emmy\u2019s for Sports Programming. The first for\u00a0his co-production of\u00a0White on Water aired on KQED covering\u00a0the\u00a01985 Big Boat Series Regatta at the St. Francis Yacht\u00a0Club and the\u00a0second for the\u00a01996 Citibank Regatta series at PIER 39\u00a0aired on Fox Sports Bay Area cable channel. \u00a0 He\u2019s\u00a0been team videographer for three\u00a0America\u2019s Cup campaigns\u00a0(USA 1982-83, AmericaOne 1998-2000 &amp; Oracle Racing\u00a02001-2002)\u00a0and covered the US Olympic Sailing Trials twice\u00a0(2000 &amp; 2004). He\u00a0produced and directed\u00a0a documentary on the\u00a090 year old\u00a0one design Snipe\u00a0Class\u00a0(2008). 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