Steve Benjamin graduated from Yale in 1978, earning that year’s Collegiate Sailor-of-the-Year award. He made the ill-fated 1980 US Olympic team, but had already won multiple international titles. Benjamin was 1976-77 World Champion in the Fireball Class, and the 1980 World Champion in the 505s. In 1983 he won a silver medal in the 470 class at the Pan American Games, along with his 1984 crewmate Chris Steinfeld.
Benjamin sailed out of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. He worked for a time as president of International Sailing products in Oyster Bay, New York, but later became a sales manager for North Sails. Surviving a bout with prostate cancer, Benjamin later re-named his Tripp 41 Custom as Robotic Oncology in honor of the urologic surgeon who saved his life.
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