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is needed. Otherwise, he charters crusing boats out of Santa Barbara. Contact
Greg at gabarker@aol.com if you get a chance to visit the California Central
Coast. This is not his Lido 14 in the picture. :^}
One
of our Fearless Leaders leading the pack while racing his "Chance Along".
Fred
is pictured here standing watch at the helm of "Malaquena" (a 75' North
Sea Trawler) in La Paz, Mexico.
is a young 60 year old Aussie now living in Sacramento, California. Brian
bought a boat and took up sailing, because everyone was doing it, in 1972
when he moved to New Zealand.
time
teaching Jayhawks the rudiments of cognitive dissonance than out sailing
one of his (way too many) boats. This picture shows the produce of
his labors on the non-sailing part of this list, which is always misprinted
in the list banner--amateurish boat building. I'm currently building a
Michalak mini-shanty boat, a design I call a "Harmonica", but Michalak
calls something else.
em,
cruised em, sunk em, cursed em, ....--still trying to learn ..........currently
fumbling around in 15 knot winds on a Balboa 26 and a Victoria 18
. Married 38 years to infinitely patient strawberry blond who loves sailing
.....Sailing on Lake Powell (pure majesty); Pacific NW--Puget Sound, the
San Juans; So. Cal--Channel Island; mud puddles and Colorado high country
lakes.
My
wife Chris and I have been messing about on boats for the last 15 years
or so, starting with a Sunfish, moving on to a West Wight Potter (still
a neat boat after all these years), and 10 years with a Seafarer 26, "Caribe"
(including living aboard briefly in the Yorktown, VA area), before coming
to our current love, a Baba 35 "One With The Wind". Most of our sailing
is on the Chesapeake out of the Kent Narrows area although we manage at
least one trip a year to the lower Bay. I've done some coastal sailing
including the delivery of a Tayana 37 from New Rochelle, NY which supplied
more object lessons in how not manage a boat than I care to admit to. I
also publish "Baba Salt" the newsletter for Baba, Tashiba, Panda, and Taswell
owners (e-mail to rick@ssg.com for details). In my non-sailing hours I
work as a small systems computer consultant while Chris is a corporate
trademark attorney. Interests bridging both life ashore and afloat include
photography and guitar strumming (the current inventory includes a pair
of Ovations, 6 and 12 string, and an Epiphone Joe Pass).
He's
been sailing for 20 years ... with a couple of 10 year breaks. He lives
aboard his 1968 Islander 37, "Je Suis Prest." The name of the boat is archaic
french for "Look Out!"
I
raced dinghies (mostly Lasers) and a J22 on Lake Lanier and did IOR racing
in Florida for many years. To satisfy my passion for long distance sailing,
I have delivered sailboats along the US East Coast, to and from the Caribbean,
to Mexico, and in the Great Lakes. In 1994 I did an eastbound transatlantic
passage to Scotland, in '95 a passsage from Scotland to Norway via the
Shetland Islands, and in '96 a westbound transatlantic from Scotland to
the Chesapeake Bay via Iceland and Newfoundland. My favorite cruising area
is the West Coast of Scotland. Presently, I own (with Jan Mohlhenrich)
a Ranger 26 and a S&S Pilot 35 which we sail out of Milwaukee on Lake
Michigan.
near
the Chesapeake Bay in 1980. After several seasons of crewing for
friends, Bryan bought Capella, a 1977 Valiant 40, and moved aboard. Capella,
Bryan, and assorted crew - often including his Schipperke, "Jib" - have
sailed the US East Coast, Bermuda, and Nova Scotia. Bryan currently
works as a broker with Annapolis Sailyard accumulating cruising chips so
that he and Linda can make their escape, sometime around the turn of the
century.
Jim sails an Ericson 35 with his two BIG dogs on Tampa Bay and the Gulf
of Mexico. He says, "I'm just not happy unless I can sail 100 times a year."
reminding
all of us in the northern laditudes what summer feels like.
Cap,
a scurvy dog, has been a boat person since birth. After ramming the Mayflower
II in a 28' Cruise-Along stinkpot with his father at age 5, he has continued
family tradition and has broken, smashed, rammed, and run aground boats
(both sail and power) on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Caribbean
and the Gulf of Mexico. Brief stints as a commercial fisherman, yacht deliverer
and intercollegiate racing sailor yielded to a career in Oceanography at
the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Miami, FL, the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, The Univ of Rhode Island, Oregon State Univ,
Scripps Inst of Oceanography and finally to semi-retirement at the Univ
of Maine. Besides being thrown out of some of the worlds most prestigious
oceanographic institutions he has always managed to land a job near some
great cruising ground, despite a record of not being able to hold a job
at one place for more than a few years. An owner and lover of wooden boats,
he succumbed to the niceties of Clorox bottle sailing and backyard maintenance
and now owns an old trailerable O'Day 20 and various and sundry other small
craft. He is much in demand for crew, not because of his innate ability
or glowing personality, but because he knows most of the best clam flats,
mussel beds, or fishing holes and he always brings his own booze!
I'm
a professional photographer, I've been on or near the water all of my life
I started out racing and building hydroplanes back in the early 60's and
have been sailing for the past 20 years. I currently have a 27' Hunter
and sail it out of Jordan Creek North Carolina from the River Rat Yacht
Club.
And
finally a picture of our other fearless leader !! Is all that work on his
desk from Yacht-L ? And a new picture of Eppo and Carla on their boat Gabbina,
the Italian equivalent for Kooi, but also meaning small sail, small cabin
(in a boat) and reminding Carla and Eppo of their frequent visits during
many years to Italy.
Currently
following the Melge 24 winter circuit. Do you need crew? Left coast,Great
Lakes, Islands. I have a flexible job and loves to travel
the part owner of a Jeanneau Sunrise 34 (Soleil) which weve owned for about
a year, before that a cute 26 footer for about ten years. Mostly into local
family cruising with dreams of taking off for a few years...maybe one day.
Just love reading the stories by YACHT-L folks who sail to far away places..
My biggest thrill was sailing in the Sydney to Hobart a last year aboard
a friends 40ft ketch. We had tried a couple of years earlier but retired
in the Bass Straite when the skipper busted his ribbs. Apart from that
I've clocked up a few miles on coastal trips and done a few ocean races
other than the Hobart. Everybody responsible for the running of YACHT-L
is to be congratulated its as good as any Yacht Club I know and I learn
so much from the messages.
first
a 19 foot Mirage that he rebuilt form the bottom of Lake St. Claire, then
a succession of boats to Devil's Dream, II, a 1971 Tartan 34.
Most of his sailing is done on Lake Huron during an annual summer cruise.
He singlehands the boat because in his own words: "I'm much too obnoxious
for anybody to spend that much time with."
Ken is the Senior Editor of Great Lakes Cruiser Magazine. It is a publication for boaters who travel the Great Lakes, featuring three harbors each month. He writes for and contributes drawings to each issue. Some of his art is for sale through the magazine. In real life Ken is the manager of the Bowen Branch of Detroit Public Library and a part-time square dance caller. The calling supports his sailing habit, hence the boat name: Devil's Dream --it's his favorite hoe-down. Ken is the artist who did the drawing of the buoy on the top of this page..
sail their Catalina 30, "Distant Drummer" on Cave Run Lake in Eastern
Kentucky. They have done a few coastal charters and a delivery for a friend.
They are Assoc. members of the Jordan Creek River Rat Yacht Club and Charter
members of the Farmers Yacht and Tractor Club. Stop in and see them, if
you're ever in the area.
Kinh Luan Nguyenngoc
hi
I decided upon the pictured 12 ft Topper scow partly because I could moor
it in an apartment bedroom of yore...besides it was my first sail ever...when
I was ready for a cruiser, I needed the ability to anchor it in my garage...thus
My Other Sailboat is a Montgomery 15...I do have an emotional resonance
with diminutive sailcraft, I think sailing was one of those accidents in
my life...looking back, it was more than just a minor accident...it is
still too early though, for me to know what sailing will rilly mean, in
the journey ahead...at the present, it means being connected to a community
of sailors, and that is blessing enuf !!! 117.8 W 34.0 N
Tom
and Jackie O'Meara - St.
Brendan's Isle -
started
sailing 30+ years ago on the Chesapeake while stationed at NAS Patuxent
River, MD. After careers in the Navy (Tom) and as Newspaper Editor
and Univ. Grad Program Mgmt (Jackie), Orange Park FL became home.
Cruising friends needing mail forwarding and message services planted the
seed for "St. Brendan's Isle, Inc." about ten years ago. Boats came
and went, but the first 'St. Brendan's Isle' (the boat) was a 50' steel
schooner designed by J. Murray Watts. The second was a 40' Hunter.
The third will be a cruising catamaran. We are sort of moving up
the technology ladder here. :)
Anyone passing through the Jacksonville/Orange Park area is welcome to stop by. We keep a pot of coffee on ALL the time (old Navy habits die hard). St. Brendan's Isle, Inc. (the company) will be moving to Green Cove Springs just south of Orange Park very soon. We will be one block from the waterfront (St. John's River) right up the street from the Municipal (free) pier. If you cruise the beautiful St. John's River stop by for a visit.
for
guess what I really look like.)
I
know I was born with a brain because my parents always told me "you were
born with a brain why don't you use it!" Ex fence rider, ex outboard mechanic,
ex car mechanic, ex tug boat deck hand-engineer, ex seiner, ex gillneter,
ex troller, ex logging bridge builder, ex private island caretaker, ex
fly in arctic mining camp builder, ex cabinet maker, ex science world exhibit
builder, now doing house renovations. What's next? Presently boat less
in Vancouver B.C. Canada but crewing on a Soling and dreaming of the Olympics
(and I mean dreaming). I was the proud owner (12 years) of Hi-Ho II, a
27' ceder on oak sloop built in Vancouver in 1937. She looks like a Dragon
with a cabin. I've been to just about every nook and cranny from Seattle
to the Aleutians and spent a lot of time sailing in the South Pacific.
Now at 45 I'm hanging on with tooth and nail at the top of the slippery
slope and I'm not letting go!
Bill
Sellar - - Bill proudly watching his
Southern Cross 39 "Nemo" being launched for the first time after he bought
her.
a photo of a proud lurker happily at anchor on a sailing vacation charter.
Dave is 46 and lives in Roberts Creek, B.C. His email address is: dave_sutherland@sunshine.net
