I really can' remember when Shevy went missing, but I (we) would really like to know what has become of him.
Have you had any contact with him? Any clue at all as to how one might reach him?
Shevy said goodbye to the Laser forum right around the time that I arrived in the autumn of 2004. It was a coincidence, really it was! He left because he was getting married, and he moved to Turkey with his bride. TLF wished him well, and we still do. If you do a search, you can find his goodbye letter. He pledged then to keep the DrLaser stuff available, but evidently he changed his mind. At one point, he came back and left a post promising to get DrLaser back online quickly. That was a year ago. He's got a different life and things change.
You have to consider that in the United States, they don't even show the sailing events on TV. OK, they did run a half-hour summary on one of the cable channels at 2:30 in the morning. Those highlight reels didn't show anything but the mark roundings and the finish, so there wasn't much point to watching. You couldn't observe boat handling or strategy as the sailors rounded the course.