SandDoc History
Attended my 1st contest in July '89 with my wife and was hooked. "I can do this" was my mantra
as my wife and I entered our 1st contest two weeks later. The rest is history as they say. We
got started with a small team at the local Alki Beach contest, which quickly grew to big contests
and paid professional sculptures.
History of sculptures and events:
'10 World Championships Federal Way, WA (invited)
'10 World Championships display sculptures Federal Way, WA (invited)
'08, '09, '10 Display Sculptures sponsored by the cities of Longbeach, WA, and Ocean Shores, WA
'89 to '10 Beach contests at Cannon Beach, Oregon; Ocean Shores, WAshington;
Longbeach, WAshington - placed 1st and placed many times in each contest with
my team Hard Sand Café
'08, '09 Quebec City, CA competition and display sculptures for Expo Citi
'09 Ft Meyers Beach, FL Tournament of Champions by invitation
'09 Tacoma Maritime Festival – display sculpture
'08 1st Place Tournament of Champions in Doubles Harrison Hot Springs, Canada
'08 World Championships in Harrison Hot Springs, Canada - Solo 3rd Place and People's Choice Awards
'08 Parksville, Canada International Competition - Solo 3rd place
'08 Sand box demo and carve for the Tacoma News Tribune
'08 Cascade Challenge, Castle display, Harrison Hot Springs, BC, Canada
'89 to '07 World Championship of Sand Sculpture in Harrison, BC, Canada
Solo -1st place in '99, 2nd place in '00, 3rd place in '07
People's choice '07
Doubles - 3rd place in '01
Team - 1st place in '90, '92 & '01 as team captain or co-captain, and placed several other
years
'07 Parksville Beach Festival - won peoples choice and placed 4th in solo
'97 to '07 Teaching sculpting classes to public for the Chamber of Commerce in Ocean
Shores, Longbeach, WA, and Cannon Beach, Or
'07 Tournament of Champions, Harrison Hot Springs, BC, Canada - placed 2nd in
Doubles
'06, '07 Northwest Backroads special on Sand Sculpting in the NW
'06 Joe Maize Memorial Sculpture, Harrison Hot Springs, BC, Canada - friend and mentor
'06 Tri Cities Duck Races corporate sculpture
'06 Sand in the City - Bellingham, set up, assist, judge, and carve demo
'06 Parksville Beach Festival - won peoples choice and placed 3rd
'05 Wedding castle for a private party wedding at Cannon Beach on the beach
'05 Blankenberg, Belgium - carved with 45 sculptors to create sand sculpture park over
3 weeks
'05 Horizon Airlines - cover story and feature or magazine
'94 to '04 Sandscapes Sand Sculpture company - numerous sculptures for festivals fairs
malls and corporate shows around the US
'04 World's tallest sand Sculpture - Port Angeles, WA
'02 to '04 Christmas sculptures at Seaside, or for Chamber of Commerce festival
'01 to '03 Television special done and run for 2 years in Tim Noah's program
"How About That!" about unusual professions.
'01 Seattle Children's Museum display sculpture
'98 World's longest sand sculpture in LongBeach, WA - 24 mi
'97 Minnesota State Fair carved display for the Kodak Exhibit
'96, '97 University of WAshington Experimental College - taught sand sculpture
'94 Bill Nye the Science Guy - filmed special on sand sculpture for his structures
program (#14)
'91 to '94 Harrison Hot Springs Spring Team Competitions - won or placed in each
'94 to '00 Sand in the City - assist in set up, assist, judge, and carve a demo
'94 Santa Cruz, Ca - set up contest and assist sculptors in competition, and demo
'94 4th of July sculpture for the parks department of Tacoma, WA
'93 Seatac Mall - lobby sculpture
'89, '90 Alki Beach contest with team
It all began at the age of 6. I tried to "borrow" sand from the Atlantic City, NJ beach
filling my Lincoln Log canister with sand. Then, promptly being disciplined and told
"no sand box for this boy." Little did they know!..
