The captain's domain is the ocean. Growing up surfing the California coast, tides, currents, waves and heavy weather were his natural environment.

 

As a young man, with his father and brother, he built a trimaran and lived aboard it. He sailed extensively with a tough old schoonerman aboard the 65-foot gaff rigged schooner, Blue Mary. This fellow favored  yelling and cursing, all in good humour, for instruction. He trained the young man in classic boat handling.  

 

An opportunity arose to crew aboard the 52-foot catamaran Antigone from Mazatlan, Mexico to Newport Beach, California, 32 days with an international crew captivating him with their stories. Mysterious Greek island caves needed exploring.  Guitars and drums needed playing across Europe and the Caribbean at full moon beach parties.

 

The travel bug was in his veins. It awakened a wanderlust that still thrives. Being a sailor, with an ever present surfboard, was the ultimate way to honor his marine skills and inquisitive adventuresome nature.

After getting his captain's license at age 19, his first job was with the Bank of America. He was responsible for repossessing  a 40-foot sailboat and sailing it from Ventura to King Harbour in Redondo Beach, California. These were the days before GPS so he used dead reckoning navigation with sextants and charts. He sailed with his two trusty hounds through fog and night. It was a happy, pleased skipper that came out in front of the harbor at dawn the following day.

His training in classic boats served well when he acquired the John Alden staysail schooner Curlew. Many a fine adventure was had aboard this vessel.  There were schooner association regattas on the California coast, a sail through a hurricane enroute to Hawaii followed by 4 years of wonderful inter-island sailing.

Next boat the captain had, was a Formosa '56 pilothouse ketch (later sold to magazine publisher Bob Bitchin) made famous in his book  the "Lost Soul." The following years, were busy with ocean deliveries. The most notable was surviving a dismasting aboard an old gaff rigger en route from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean.

Now, the captain, along with wonderful crew, is living the dream of fantastic world cruising aboard Gloria. This modern classic yacht, styled after the successful ocean racer Storm Vogel was for sale in a small Amsterdam canal. It was love at first sight in the summer of 2005, after 2 years of questing.

 

Together they have logged tens of thousands of miles including; circumnavigating the southern ocean, multiple Atlantic crossings, a visit to Ushuaia, Patagonia, Argentina, Cape Horn, Caribbean Sea, San Blas islands, Panamá Canal, the Galapagos, Gambier Lagoon, Society Islands, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Madagascar, South Africa, Brazil, Bermuda, Azores, Western Europe, Canary Islands, and the Cape Verde islands.

After a recent haul-out in Trinidad from July-September 2022, he and his crew cruised in the Caribbean between Columbia and Panama then crossed to canal and are currently in Costa Rica.

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