Curtis Weinrich

Chemist by schooling, builder by training, stubborn and somewhat irreverent by birth, Curtis is on a quest to reinvent the wheel, as it were. Determined to find out if the world really is round, he has joined forces with the wonderful crew of the Maggie B to make his first experience ever setting foot aboard a sailing vessel a rounding of the infamous Cape Horn. (more…)

Willis Sautter

Willis ran into the crew of the Maggie B at the Antigua Classic Race Week, where he was finishing a season of sailing his own boat through the islands of the eastern Caribbean. Prior to running off to sea, he received a J.D. from the University of Chicago (which, he later discovered, is little use on a boat) and practiced law for several years in Washington, D.C. As his previous sailing experience has been confined to the balmy waters of the Caribbean, he looks forward to sailing new (colder) waters and seeing new places.

John Steele

John Steele is President of Covey Island, the builder of the Maggie B.

A boatbuilder since his school days, John was one of the original Covey Island partners when the yard was established in 1979. He was voted Entrepreneur of the Year by the Bridgewater & Area Chamber of Commerce in 1994. (more…)

Valentine Michon

Valentine Michon is a student in History from Strasbourg.

She hopes to join a University program towards her Masters in History and Geography and anticipates teaching in a secondary school. After spending a year in Saskatchewan, Valentine realized that there are many other places in the world and she started to enjoy traveling — from the Sahara to the Caribbean.

Bori is a close friend and she is happy to join her for her first real sailing experience.

Nadia Mohammedi

My parents are from Algeria and I was living in Toulouse, but I found it too cold so I moved to Caracas to work for a Social Forum. I took a sailboat from Venezuela to Antigua to be with my friend Mounira and to travel with her.

Kath Moore

Kath Moore is from Newcastle, Australia. She spent five years in Sydney studying and then working as a physiotherapist. Her first sailing experience was in 2004 aboard the training brigantine “Young Endeavour.” It was only five days – but Kath was hooked. Working in a hospital for a year inspired Kath to do something a little more exciting, and so she found another brigantine, the 88 foot “Windward Bound” in Hobart, Tasmania. (more…)

Bori Kiss

Bori Kiss is a long time sailor in Maine and Hungary. She speaks eight languages, loves to meet people, learn new languages and cultures, and is on her first journey around the world.

Bori Kiss holds a BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic and Masters in European Politics from Strasbourg.

Frederic Kellogg

Known as Freddy, Fredrock and Fearless Fred, began his career at sea under the tutelage of uncles Dan and George Blagden. At the age of 19 he commanded a somewhat rotten 50 foot schooner, Calypso (aka Collapso) acquired for $75 at Essex Boat Works which lasted all the way to Maine. Many boats later he is down to Nellie Jane, 24 feet. (more…)

Hannah Joudrey

Hannah has lived the past 5 1/2 yrs almost entirely on board a tallship and at sea somewhere on this planet. First, the Picton Castle , then The Eye Of the Wind and Mist Of Avalon.

She may look like just one individual however she carries along with her on her travels, her family, mentors, her community and many many friends she has scattered around the globe. (more…)

Max Hofman

Max first met the crew of the Maggie B at Antigua Classic Race Week.

When not sailing, he is an independent engineer in Bedford, England, specializing in unusual engines. He came to us from rebuilding a 1954 Bentley “R-type” engine. Built his own sailboat from scratch from an old builders’ plan and then sailed it out of Fowey Harbor (Cornwall). First Lieutenant aboard the Nulla Bonna, a 47 schooner, in the Antigua Classic Race Week. This will be Max’s first time crossing the equator. He is already in charge of all systems and refinishing the Reepicheep and varnishing the cockpit table.