| We found some of our crew on the internet -- now there's a scary thought! But really, it worked well. Craig has been a member of Sailnet's Pacific Northwest mail list for quite some time. He announced to the list that we were looking for crew, and immediately received quite an impressive response. |  |
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The next step was to meet each of the very interested folks, and determine compatibility. If they passed that test, (and if we passed their test), we checked references, and checked to make sure their availability was sufficiently flexible to meet our needs. |
| Jim Van Gorder is the one initial crew that we didn't meet
on the internet. He's a member of the Sauvie Island Yacht Club.
At the January meeting we announced that we were looking for crew, and was
anyone interested? Jim stood up and volunteered himself. Jim sails a
Cascade 36 out of Portland. Jim accompanied us all the way to the Marquesas, and stayed with us there a couple of weeks. |
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Reggie Good and his bride, Barbara Bates, came to us by way of the internet. They sail a Cal 27 on Flathead Lake in Montana and are thinking about future ocean cruising -- perhaps Baja California for starters? Reggie and Barbara joined us for the Portland-to-San Francisco leg, and then again for the Tonga to New Zealand leg. |
| Brian Abel joined us from Mt. Vernon, Washington. He sails regularly on his family's Tayana 37, and works at Anacortes Yacht Charters. He is an engineering student, with plans to go into naval architecture. Brian joined us in San Francisco, for the passage to the Marquesas, and stayed three additional weeks. | %20of%20P0002576.JPG) |
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Mark Ulett is a long time family friend, who joined us in the Marquesas, the Tuamotus and the Society Islands. Although he started out as a non-sailor, he has been an enthusiastic learner and speaks French almost like a native. Mark is a marine biology student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
| Cornelia Neunteufel, from Vienna, Austria, was an exchange
student with our family nearly 10 years ago. Her prior sailing
experience was a week with us in British Columbia, but she's a fast learner.
She is studying physics at Vienna Technical University. Jens Kosyna (Cori's boyfriend) is from Hamburg, Germany. His family sails a Comfortina 35 in the Baltic Sea, so he came to us an already capable sailor. Jens studies chemical engineering at Technical University of Hamburg. Cori and Jens joined us in Bora Bora and continued with us through Samoa and Tonga.
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