Friends

Philip and Susan Dodds of  beautiful Pleasant Plains Farm deserve extra special mention here. They most graciously provided dock and shop space for Adventure during her long 3 year refit, and a wonderful cottage for us to live in in the interim period between selling our house and sailing away on our first voyage. I can truly say that all of it wouldn't have been possible without them!

I had long set aside my guitar, and was inspired to pick it up again in numerous wonderful musical afternoons and evenings with them, the Irish Potato Famine, Seamus Kennedy and other wonderful musicians.

Thank you, Philip and Susan, from the bottom of our hearts!

Fred Hickman

An old near and dear friend and fellow craftsman, Fred and I worked together in our shop at Homeport Farm for many years, Fred rebuilding pianos while I made harpsichords. A first class craftsman, you can visit his website if you need your piano rebuilt or repaired in the Annapolis area.

Fred also is a fine sailor, having made offshore passages in Buster in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as being crew with us in the 2003 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race.

Christy Rodman

Christy participated in the 2002 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race with us, and sailed offshore to Turks & Caicos with us as the first leg of her around the world voyage, which is being documented as it happens on her website. Christy kept a much better log of the voyage than I did, and it's well worth your while to visit. A first class sailor!

Chris Martin

Chris sailed with us from St. Thomas to Beaufort on the voyage home in 2005. A world class proffesional schoonerman, he crewed on the Pride of Baltimore II and America among other vessels for several years. He currently is mate on the ferry running from Key West to Dry Tortugas. Incidentally, he is an old friend of Charly's son Stewart, and they were Boy Scouts together. Chris is the best crew I have ever had, jumping to and doing whatever is needed whenever it is needed!

Mike & Nancy Kaufman

I've known Mike since the day I arrived in Annapolis in Bluenose back in 1975. I went straight to his yacht design office looking for employment. (He sent me to the boatbuilder downstairs). Mike is a world class Naval Architect well known to the yachting community and may be visited at http://www.kaufmandesign.com/expert2.htm.

Since we joined Eastport Yacht Club, we got to know Nancy, a beautiful and vivacious lady who has the patience to spend long hours tutoring kids with learning problems.

Bruce and Gwenda Roberts

Bruce needs no introduction to the yachting world. Visit his website at http://www.bruceroberts.com. We co-sponsored Bruce & Gwenda as members of the Eastport Yacht Club. Gwenda is a first class and very smart woman, and is the brains of Bruce's interiors. We've enjoyed many hours partying with them at the club.

Bruce and Gweda have since moved to Ireland, and we miss them greatly!

Candy & Larry MacDuff

We met Candy And Larry of Turus in Boqueron Puerto Rico after we had come over from Luperon, Dominican Republic. Many hours of snorkeling, beachcombing and partying ensued through St. Thomas where they had to turn around and go back to the States.

Candy loves to spend hours with a fishing pole in her hands and sing to the fishes!

Candy and Larry are managing a marina/restaurant in Key Largo Florida last I heard.

Mike & Frankie Montieth

We pulled into Royal Island in the Bahamas in 2003 and Mike rowed out to us. Turns out he was president of the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race for some years, and was naturally attracted to our schooner. With Rob and Holly (below) we sailed together through Eleuthera and the Exumas, gorging on conch and lobster.

We all got together back in the states on several occasions and resumed our partying with much gusto. We hope to sail again in tandem in the fall of 2005 back south.

Rob Sanger & Holly Carter

Part of the "Bahamas Gang" with Mike & Frankie, Rob & Holly sail on Hampshire Rose.

Robb is a first class chef of conch, and we all gained weight while down there! He taught me all I don't want to know about cleaning conch (slimy!).

Holly took the picture on the front page of this site. A barrel of fun and the reigning "Conch Fritter Queen"!

Scott Rogers

We first met Scott at the Nassau Bahamas Yacht Club, when he arrived to help us sail back to the Chesapeake. He was recommended by Holly Carter, who always finds the good 'uns, and is a fine crew and a consummate musician.

Scott has since bought and lives aboard his own schooner Shanty and has sailed in the last two schooner races.

Scott was a great help to me in making the new boom before our 2005 trip to the Bahamas. I couldn't have done it without him!

Don & Olga Casey

Don and Olga have been sailing their Allied Seawind Richard Corey around Florida and The Bahamas for thirty years or so, and have been doing the Caribbean in 2003/4. Don is well known to yachtsmen for his series of how-to books and his regular monthly column in Sail magazine.

Olga is all class, speaks Spanish like a native, because she is one, hailing from Cuba before the revolution.

The Casey's were the unofficial commodores of the "Q Flag Fleet" yachts tagging along together humping down to Grenada for the hurricane season. (DUH!)

Famille Massenet

Jean-Yves, Frederique, Aleena, Chloe, Anaëlle, Mitz, Marie and Shiny are from Montreal, and sailed on a 45 foot MacIntosh steel cutter Yoko. Very French, very funny and the girls are very beautiful and take after their mother! They made the world's most special birthday cards for Charly.

Also part of the Luperon crowd, we met in Boqueron P.R. just before Christmas 2003, and sailed together as far as Grenada. They escaped the wrath of Ivan and have since moved off the boat and back to snow country.

Yoko's quite a boat and is for sale! Send a note if interested.

Steve, Lyn & Katie

Steve, Lyn & Katie are sailing aboard Melika. We met them "on the hard" in Trinidad and became fast friends. Steve is English, and Lyn is Australian.

Katie is a real charmer, and we enjoyed watching her grow up from a little over a year old to over 18 months.

Al Roper

Al came aboard with us in Norfolk Virginia after the  2005 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race for our voyage to and within The Bahamas. Al is a well-known ample-bodied seaman character among the schooner race crowd, known for his wit and talents.

A physician by profession, he gave it up some years ago when the HMO's tried to tell him how to practice medicine. Al has crewed the Merritt Walter schooner Bonny Rover for many years. A real boat whore who will go to sea on sail or power as long as the captain is willing to put up with him.

A singer of sea chanteys (poorly, but with great enthusiasm), a teller of tales, and a poet extraordinaire, Al has been appointed the official ship's jester!

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More to come.....

There are many friends I have left out so far and you will be added over time as this site grows. I apologize for any mis-spelling y'all! Just send a message and it will be fixed!