I hold a 50-ton master’s license with a sailing endorsement issued by the US Coast Guard. I captain 40-foot monohulls in Boston and New England waters for cruises, deliveries, and daysails.

I have also sailed more than 14,000 offshore miles on monohulls and catamarans, including crossings of the North Atlantic (Canaries to St. Lucia) and the South Atlantic (Richards Bay, South Africa to Grenada).

SAILING EXPERIENCE

  • Bristol Caravel 22 s/v Jalda II
    Daysailed/cruised New England waters between Plymouth, Massachusetts and Penobscot Bay, Maine. 240 at-sea days.

  • At-sea days: 720
    Nautical miles: 6,400

    Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 419, s/v Duck Duck (skippered a delivery) 

    Sabre 30, s/v Caution 2 (skippered a delivery) 

    Hanse 415, s/v Avrora (skipper day sails and cruises in New England waters)

    Jeanneau 389, s/v Laura (skipper day sails and cruises in New England waters)

    Hanse 375, s/v Syrena (skipper day sails and cruises in New England waters

    Beneteau Oceanis 37, s/v Lola (skipper day sails and cruises in New England waters)

    Bavaria 37, s/v Irlbach (skipper day sails and cruises in New England waters

    Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 419 s/v Compass Rose (skipper day sails in Boston Harbor)

    Jenneau 349, s/v Eliza (skipper day sails in Boston Harbor)

  • At-sea days: 121
    Miles: 14,300

    Lagoon 410, s/v Painkiller 2
    I served as deck hand and solo-handled the 0100-0400 watch daily on a  6,600 mile, two-month passage with the owner and two other crew, from Richards Bay, South Africa, to Grenada (with stops in Namibia, St. Helena, and Fernanda de Noronha). 

    Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 54 DS  s/v Naughtilus II
    I served as deck-hand and cook and handled four-hour nightly solo watches for a 2.970-mile passage from Las Palamas, Canary Islands, to St. Lucia via Cape Verde. 

    Hylas 49 s/v Rule One
    I served as part of a crew of four for 5 days and 700 nautical miles from Hamilton, Bermuda to Edgewater, Maryland. 

    Passport 470cc s/v Eos
    Double-handed, with the owner, for 6 at-sea days and 870 nautical miles from Hampton, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, outside the Outer Banks. 

    Passport 470cc s/v Eos
    Served as first mate under owner for 5 at-sea days and 850 nautical miles from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Norfolk, Virginia, outside the Outer Banks.

    Pearson 422 s/v Maya
    I double-handed, for 10 days and 970 nautical miles, with the skipper/owner,  from Green Cove Springs, Fla., to Martha's Vineyard, outside the Outer Banks (not the Intercostal Waterway), with one 700-mile nonstop leg and one 270-mile nonstop leg. 

    Tartan 43 s/v North Star
    Double-handed with the owner 326 nautical miles and two at-sea days from Stratford, Connecticut to Hampton, Virginia. 

    Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 41 s/v Duck Duck
    Served on a three-man crew for two-day delivery from Scituate, Mass. to Portsmouth, RI.

    Swan 60 s/v Tramontana 
    Double-handed a two-day delivery from Marblehead, MA. to Portsmouth, RI.

    Hunter 39 s/v Faithfull
    Served as part of a three-member delivery crew for 9 days, 700 nautical miles from Mamaroneck, New York, to Charleston, S.C. 

    Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 349 s/v Eliza
    Served as sole qualified crew for a skipper and his friends on a cruise around Massachusetts Bay, 7 at-sea days, 150 nautical miles.

    Beneteau 323 s/v Alex
    Served as sole qualified crew for a skipper and his family on a cruise around Massachusetts Bay, 5 at-sea days, 130 nautical miles. 

Thunderstorms over South Carolina make for an eerily beautiful sunset 80 miles offshore

Thunderstorms over South Carolina make for an eerily beautiful sunset 80 miles offshore

Jamestown, St. Helena, is the main city of the UK-owned island in the South Atlantic Ocean where Napoleon lived out his last days

Jamestown, St. Helena, is the main city of the UK-owned island in the South Atlantic Ocean where Napoleon lived out his last days

Morro di Pico rises above the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, 220 miles off the coast of Brazil. Making landfall here means you have crossed the South Atlantic Ocean!

Morro di Pico rises above the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, 220 miles off the coast of Brazil. Making landfall here means you have crossed the South Atlantic Ocean!

Mindelo, Cape Verde

Mindelo, Cape Verde

Laborie fishing village, St. Lucia

Laborie fishing village, St. Lucia

Ken Johnson, captain and owner of s/v Painkiller 2, brings in a yellowfin tuna caught in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the northern coast of Brazil

Ken Johnson, captain and owner of s/v Painkiller 2, brings in a yellowfin tuna caught in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the northern coast of Brazil

We made landfall at St. George's, Grenada, 6,570 nautical miles from our port of departure, Richards Bay, South Africa.

We made landfall at St. George's, Grenada, 6,570 nautical miles from our port of departure, Richards Bay, South Africa.

Breakers line the narrow channel at the harrowing entrance to the lagoon in Knysna, South Africa

Breakers line the narrow channel at the harrowing entrance to the lagoon in Knysna, South Africa

The remarkable calm of this sunset leaves no hint that this photograph was taken in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles from any land

The remarkable calm of this sunset leaves no hint that this photograph was taken in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles from any land

Whatever the conditions, my favorite place is sprawled out on the aft deck, clipped in and wrapped up in my waterproof banana suit, reading some action novel to take my mind off the vicissitudes and trials of life at sea

Whatever the conditions, my favorite place is sprawled out on the aft deck, clipped in and wrapped up in my waterproof banana suit, reading some action novel to take my mind off the vicissitudes and trials of life at sea