I have always wanted to have a section of this web site devoted to our crew.  We have a great group of sailors, young and old, who have helped us take avalanche back and forth across 1600 miles of ocean between Jamestown and Antigua.  They are a great group of people:  friends, relatives, co-workers, competitive sailors, people who work in the sailing industry, people who want an offshore experience.  They all possess important skills that help us through the trip.  All are able to sail, many are good cooks, several are excellent fishermen, a couple qualify as “jacks of all trades” who can figure out how to fix anything, several are actually professional service people in the yachting business:  electrician, electronics expert, sailmaker, rigger, boatbuilder, a couple have sailed their own boats single-handedly across thousands of miles of ocean.  I think the count now stands at 31 different crew members.  Unfortunately we didn’t take a crew photo in the early years, in fact during the first years we rarely took any photos.  For that reason some of the trips have no crew photo.  For other years I have found individual shots of some of the crew, and in some cases I have found photos with all but the photographer (usually me).  I have put a gallery of photos at the beginning of this post with trip dates and crew members identified.

Additionally I would like to try again to write a biography of the various crew members.  You will find the entry for the November 2009 trip as a combination of individual photos of that crew throughout the years with brief biographies of Peter Vaiciulis, Leo Bontiff, Kim Hapgood and Chris Adams.  This year I will try to write an individual bio of our 3 new crew members:  Ruleo Camacho, David Young and Brian Baher.  And if possible I’ll include a photo.

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