I started my sailing career on the coast of Maine where I grew up sailing at the local sailing association. My family has always owned boats and at a young age I was recruited to deliver various vessels from Maine to Southern New England and, at age 16 to Bermuda, where I was able to log the first of what would be dozens of trips north and south from New England to the Caribbean.
Summers on the coast of Maine eventually led to crewing on the large schooners that ply the coast. This type of sailing is the real deal, where fog abounds and the rocky coastline is unforgiving, not to mention that the 100' schooners are engineless and rely solely on an auxiliary "yawl boat" for power when the wind dies.
After high school, I took a year off to crew on a Baltic 51 sloop which we sailed from Newport, RI to the USVI, then cruising the length of the Windward and Leeward Islands. After that it was back to university where I continued to sail during the summers to pay my way through college. After obtaining my 100 Ton Masters license at age 21, I worked for Hinckley Yachts for two seasons as captain of their flagship Ted Hood designed 43' sloop.
After university, job offers on Wall Street did not appeal to me as much as the call of the sea. With my knowledge of ships systems as well as the coastlines of Maine and beyond I was hired to be project manager and captain of a Ray Hunt designed custom 65' Wilbur motor yacht. After four yearsl the owners commissioned the construction of a Ray Hunt designed 90' motor yacht built by Lyman Morse Boatbuilding. On that vessel we ventured as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as the Orinoco River in the Amazon.
After the passing of the owner of the 90' Hunt design motor yacht I started a marine management company, which led to deliveries and jobs as captain on a wide variety of vessels, ranging from a 63' Herreshoff designed sloop built in 1933 to a converted 180' ex-USCG buoy tender.
A summary of recent experience:
- Delivery work for Sun Yacht Charters: delivered a new Catalina 42 and a new Jeanneau 44 from Annapolis to Tortola, BVI and Tampa, FL to Tortola, respectively, and two deliveries from Maine to Florida.
- Captain of a Herreshoff designed 63' classic sloop.
- Delivery Captain for Nautor’s Swan. Deliveries included a Swan 65 from New England to Caribbean, and a Swan 60 from Florida to the Caribbean.
- Delivery Captain for the owners of an Oyster 65 sloop which included 4 passages north-South, south-north, between the Caribbean and New England.
- Delivery for the owners of a Broward 88' motor yacht and 120' Westship motor yacht. Captain of a Sparkman and Stevens 98' sloop from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean.
- Captain of a 75' classic 1929 fast commuter yacht, ranging from Fl to RI.
- Captain of a 135' ex military landing craft in Haiti.
- Captain of an 180' Ex-USCG buoy tender.