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On Deck » Crew » Former Crew
As the Maggie B makes her journey around the world, her crew will change from time to time. This is where you’ll find information about former crew members — with links to any blogging they might (or might not!) be doing…
Gail Atkinson
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Female | Age: ...
Crew March-April 2006
Gail Atkinson is the former Second Mate on the Bluenose II and a successful lobster fisherman from Cape Sable, Nova Scotia.
Mounira Almeida
Nationality: Français
Gender: Female | Age: 26
Crew June 2006
My father is Argentinean and my mother is French, I was born in Mexico and I’m from centuries of mixed ethnic origins.
It seems as though I’ve always been traveling. My first sailing experience was a long crossing of the Atlantic from the Cape Verde Islands to Antigua, where I met Frank and Bori and started this trip to Brazil.
Alden Blair
Nationality: USA
2007
In agreeing to allow himself to be used as his father’s excuse for building the Maggie B, Alden made two demands. He now joins the crew to fulfill the first: being allowed to sail her around Cape Horn (the second being allowed to mutiny and put the captain ashore will wait for warmer climates). read more…
Douglas Owen Baker
Nationality: U.S.
Gender: Male | Age: 30
Owen fell in love with sailing growing up near Annapolis, Maryland, but didn’t go to sea until just last year, leaving Fells Point, MD, on a 35′ sloop and returning north to Lake Michigan aboard the Caravel Niña, the Columbus replica. After 5 months navigating the Atlantic coastal waters and Great Lakes, he is excited to sail in open seas. read more…
Paul Baskett
Nationality: ...
Gender: Male | Age: ...
Crew March-April 2006
Paul Baskett is an accomplished master shipwright and a former member of the Canadian National Sailing Team. He is a former bike messenger in London and journalist in Bangkok.
Lieve has a Masters in Nautical Science from Maritime University of Antwerp. Now rated as “Chief Mate, All Ships”, She is Mate on 450 foot dredges, such as those used to build new ports, fix the beach in Acalpulco, or dikes in New Orleans. Lieve has made a crossing from Buenos Aires to Durban, essentially the same place we will cross the Southern Atlantic, and hopes the Maggie B’s passage will be much better. With Bart, when they were students, they built an 8 meter catamaran, sailed it from Portugal to Martinique, and sold it there for airfare home. Lieve sailed with Bart on the Plume d’Ange from Belgium to Portugal, the Canaries, the Cape Verdes and on to Salvador, where they met the Maggie B.
Theresa Chapman
Nationality: Australian
Gender: Female | Age: 24
Theresa is several things to some people. Born and schooled in Brisbane, she returns there periodically to traumatize her wonderful family. She went north to attend university in the tropical paradise of Townsville, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Ecology, like every other sucker. read more…
Anne-Louise Dauphinee
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Female | Age: ...
Crew March-April 2006
Anne Louise Dauphinee is the Mate on the Peer€™s Fancy and a resident of Halifax.
Robert Farrar
Nationality: American
Age: 54
Robert Farrar, of Atlanta, Georgia joined the Maggie B in Rangiroa, Tuamotus on October 3rd for the leg to Puerto Montt, Chile. Robert has a lifetime of experience on small to mid-size power boats and, other than Hobie Cats, has sailed with others at the helm since 1978. In 1992, he received his Bare Boat to Advanced Coastal Cruising certifications at Olympic Circle Sailing, Berkeley, California. read more…
Richard Francis
Nationality: English
Gender: Male | 2006
Janet Gibb
Nationality: New Zealander
2008
Janet is passionate about food and cooking. Her interest and involvement in food goes back to when she was brought up on a sheep and beef farm in North Canterbury, New Zealand. She recalls that all the food we ate was fresh and home grown. I wasn’t taught to cook. I just assimilated from my mother, who used to do the most fabulous farm meals. In that environment you couldn’t help but develop an interest in good cooking and good food. read more…
Bart has a Bachelor in Engineering from Maritime University of Antwerp. He’s rated as “Chief Engineer to 3000 KV engine power” (Non-nuclear!?) and works on supertugs of Norwegian design with 20,000 HP and six propellers, primarily with oil and gas installation platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Bart sailed a friend’s 8 meter boat to Spitzbergen across the Barents Sea. He’s done two Atlantic crossings with Lieve.
Max Hofman
Nationality: Englishman
Gender: Male | Age: 46
Crew June 2006
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.
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. read more…
Frederic Kellogg
Nationality: USA
2007
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. read more…
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.
Kath Moore
Nationality: Australian
Age: 24
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. read more…
Nadia Mohammedi
Nationality: Française
Gender: Female | Age: 26
Crew June 2006
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.
Valentine Michon
Nationality: Française
Gender: Female | Age: 25
Crew June 2006
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.
John Steele
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male | Age: 50+
Crew March-April 2006
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. read more…
Willis Sautter
Nationality: USA
Gender: Male | Age: 36
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.
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. read more…