Rec.Boats.Cruising Profiles*

This is a page maintained for those regular readers and contributors to the newsgroup rec.boats.cruising who wish to have a profile of their basic information and web links posted so that other group members may put faces and boats with the posts and collect links to members web sites in one spot. Contributors are encouraged to use real names and information but no one will be excluded except obvious jokers or inappropriate content. If you wish to be included, please email me the information in similar format to my template entry at the bottom, although any information may be omitted. Two photos permitted for each entry no larger than 250 pixels wide. A picture of yourself, your crew, and your boat are suggested.

To contact Jonathan Ganz, webmaster of this page, email: jganz@sailnow.com

*Special thanks to and admiration for Roger Long for his original idea, original work, and original inspiration for this resource. He deserves most of the credit.

Posting Name: Capt. JG (sometimes under my real name, Jonathan Ganz)

Webmaster of this page

Real Name: Jonathan Ganz

Vessel Name and Type: "Excalibur" 1983 Sabre 30, Mark II

Web Sites: https://www.sailnow.com

Pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/Sailnow.com

Email Address: jganz@sailnow.com

Home Port: Brickyard Cover, Richmond, California

Home Cruising Grounds: San Francisco Bay

Cruising Plans: Cruising Plans: US - East Coast, Florida, Pacific Northwest, Great Circle Route; Foreign - Back to the Caribbean, Back to Belize, Back to the Med., South America, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Seychelles, the canals of Europe and England, Ireland.

Posting Name: Roger Long

Real Name: Roger Long

Vessel Name and Type: "Strider" 1980 Endeavor 32

Web Sites:

Business: https://home.maine.rr.com/rlma

Personal: https://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/RWL.htm

Boat: https://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Boat.htm

Email Address: Strider@maine.rr.com

Home Port: Portland Maine

Home Cruising Grounds: New England

Cruising Plans: Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, and then, who knows?

Posting Name: Molesworth

Real Name: Alan Pond

Vessel Name and Type: SV "Captive" 1980 'Nautical Development' 39

Email address: ukmole@yahoo.com

Home Cruising Grounds: New Orleans

Posting Name: Wayne B

EMAIL: waynebatrecdotboats@hotmail.com

Boat: Grand Banks 49 Classic Trawler

Other Boat: Sea Ray 270 Sundeck

Old Boats: Westerly 28, Cal-34

Home Port: South Western Florida

Cruising Areas: East Coast - Maine to Florida, Florida Keys, Abacos

Future Cruises (2008): Eleuthra, Nassau and the Exumas

Way Future Cruises (2009 and beyond): St Lawrence River Loop,
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Bahamian southern out islands, Turks and
Caicos, DR, PR, USVI, BVI

Pictures: https://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaOGTlo0Zt2Lrw

Posting Name: Cavelamb Himself

Real Name: Richard Lamb and Dorothy

Vessel Name and Type: "Spirit" 1986 Catalina Capri 18 - fin keel - not centerboard. (all the capri line are fin keels) And they pretty well sail rings around the Catalina 22 swing keels.

I bought her as a restoration project.

She was in pretty sad shape. Dismasted, rigging broken and kinked, rudder broken off, dirty as hell. Well, that covers the start of it. But the Hull and Deck were solid, and most all of the pieces were there.

In the process of restoring a small keel boat I discovered that I did NOT want to restore a BIG keel boat. I enjoyed the work, but... time, money, energy, weather, family, and natural disasters aside, it really IS a lot of hard work.

I decided I'd rather spend the money on a better ship to start with. There will still be plenty to fix, maintain, modify - even on a good boat.

And then (fate/kharma/kismet/Devine Providence?) stepped in. Still waiting for the lawyers to get the papers all written and filed.

Stay tuned for further developments!

Web Site: https://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/index.htm#top

Home Cruising Grounds: To be determined.

Posting Name: Hoges in WA (Western Australia)

Real Name: Terry Hogan

Vessel Name and Type: Other people's boats

Home Port: Bunbury, Western Australia

Home cruising grounds: Wherever the OP's boat is going.

Cruising Plans: Buy boat: in 2 years (on retirement) then Up the east coast of the USA. Ireland/UK. Med.

I used to race foredeck on a 46 Curran (a boat which later circumnavigated three times non-stop), run power boats on dive trips for our university dive club on a regular basis for years, have surfed for the last 44 years, dived for the last 28 and intend to do more of the above, sans the racing, into the future.

Posting Name: Rosalie B. aka grandma Rosalie

Real Name: RosalieAnn Beasley

Vessel Name and Type: RosalieAnn - CSY 44 center cockpit cutter

Web Sites:

Boat and Family: https://members.virtualtourist.com/m/4a9c6/

and:

https://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id1.html

Business: No web site - formerly a swim team coach, middle school science teacher and Industrial Hygienist with a state OSHA (in that order). Retired in early 2000 at age 62. Bob was a Naval Aviator for 20 years and then was a secondary math and science teacher, and ended up working for the state EPA. Retired in 1999 at age 63.

Personal: https://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=192217930

Email Address: gmbeasley@mindspring.com

Home Port: Leonardtown, MD

Home cruising grounds: Chesapeake although we've done the ICW several times and out to the Bahamas

Cruising Plans: Staying in the Chesapeake.

Posting Name: Howard

Real Name: Howard Peer

Vessel Name and Type: Chouette Murray 33' Brewer semi-custom steel cutter, 1985

Photo Site: https://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/hpeer/

Email Address: public@hpeer.com

Posting Name: Paul Cassel

Real Name: Paul Cassel

Vessel Name and Type: Romanza - Tayana 42

Email Address: paul.cassel@gmail.com

Home Port: Stuart, FL. Previously, north Pacific

Home Cruising Grounds: (Now, southern FL. Previously, Pacific)

Cruising Plans: Not Sure

Posting Name: Tom

Real Name: Tom Webb

Vessel Name and Type: "Linda" Atlantic 42 Catamaran

Boat Builder's Web Site: https://www.chriswhitedesigns.com/atlantic42/index.php

Email Address: tsmwebb@gmail.com

Home Port: Honolulu, Hawaii

Home Cruising Grounds: Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. We have sailed three circuits of the South Pacific in "Linda" and visited most of the
Pacific Island nations and a great many Islands and villages.

Cruising Plans: Tentatively planning on sailing from Honolulu to San Francisco and then on to Mexico this season.

Posting Name: Jere Lull

Real Name: Jere Lull

Vessel Name and Type: Xan-à-Deux '73 Tanzer 28

Web Sites:

Personal: https://web.mac.com/jerelull/

Boat: https://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/

Email Address: JereLull@Mac.com

Posting Name: Dan Best

Real Name: Dan Best

Vessel Name and Type: Tricia Jean, Tayana 37 #192 (1979)

Web Sites:

Personal: https://home.comcast.net/~k_best/

Boat: https://triciajean192.home.comcast.net

Pictures Site: https://home.comcast.net/~triciajean192/

Email Address: DanlBest(at sign)comcast(dot)net

Home Port: Napa, CA

Home Cruising Grounds: On the hard for now

Cruising Plans: Will head back out in 2 - 3 years

Posting Name: Chuck Cox

Real Name: Chuck Cox

Vessel Name and Type:

I don't own a boat (yet), I'm a 'Cruising' member of the Boston Sailing Center and this season I'll be mostly sailing one of their brand-new Beneteau 343s. I've attached a picture of one of the Beneteau 35s5s that I sailed last year.

Web Site: https://synchro.com

Pictures Site: https://synchro.com/solstice.html

Email Address: chuck(at sign)synchro(dot)com

Home Port: Boston, MA

Home Cruising Grounds: New England

Cruising Plans: Farther than before.

Posting Name: Ernest Scribbler

Real Name: Joe Blizzard

Vessel Name and Type: Gloucester 20, Zanjero

Web Site:

https://home.comcast.net/~blizzard3/boat
(this is a bit out of date, sold the motorboat last year)

Pictures Sites:

https://blizzard.zmm.com/g20/
https://blizzard.zmm.com/fog/
https://blizzard.zmm.com/whips/

Email Address: ernestscribbler"at sign"comcast"dot"net

Home Port:

Winfield, WV

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Winfield,+WV

Home Cruising Grounds:

Kanawha River ~ mile 32 - 61

Cruising Plans:

I suppose calling what I do "cruising" might not set well with some, but as far as plans go, I'd like to try a few overnight trips this summer, and maybe trailer the boat over to Cave Run Lake in Kentucky to see what it's like going in one direction for more than a few minutes. I have some friends who've taken weeks-long river trips on the Kanawha and Ohio, so I suppose something like that isn't totally out of the question, although if you ask my wife, it probably is.

Posting Name: Geoff Schultz

Real Name: Geoff Schultz

Vessel Name and Type: 1997 Freedom 40/40

Web Site(s): www.GeoffSchultz.org

Email Address: geoff.rbc "at" geoffschultz.org

Home Port: Newport, RI

Home Cruising Grounds: Supposidly the Newport area, but BlueJacket hasn't been there in 8 years. Basically, we move the boat somewhere new each year.

Cruising Plans: We've pretty much covered all of the Caribbean and the east coast of the US. After the US dollar regains some strength we'll head to Europe.

Our 2008 cruising will take us through the Hudson river and Erie canal to Lake Ontario. We'll then take the St. Lawrence river past Montreal and Quebec to the Canadian Maritimes. We'll visit Prince Edward Island and head to Newfoundland. Then we'll explore Nova Scotia, cross the Bay of Fundy and sail down the US east coast. For more details, please see my web site. In 2009, I think that we'll concentrate on Maine & Nova Scotia and then take the boat to FL where we'll head to the NW Caribbean to go diving.

Posting Name: Jeff

Real Name: Jeff Morris

Vessel Name and Type: Loki, PDQ 36 Capella catamaran

Previous Vessel: Nonsuch 30

Web Site(s): www.sv-loki.com

Email Address: jeff(at sign)sv-loki(dot)com

Home Port: Boston, MA

Home Cruising Grounds: East Coast

Cruising Plans: New England for the next few years

Posting Name: Salty

Real Name: Mike Manners

Vessel Name and Type: Loki, 1986 C&C 27-5

Email Address: mikemanners@sbcglobal(dot)net

Home Cruising Grounds: New England

Cruising Plans: Currently it's mostly evenings, weekends, and occasional multi-week cruises