Richard and Sheri Crowe
Richard has been sailing offshore since 1980 and Sheri since 1982. We both hold US Coast Guard 100 ton Open Oceans licenses and have each sailed over 300,000 miles of which about 80% are offshore miles.
We have been skippering and maintaining Orange Coast College's sail-training vessel Alaska Eagle since it was donated in England in 1982. Between Alaska Eagle and our own boats we have made three Transatlantic crossings and over twenty crossings between Hawaii and the mainland. We have been through the Chilean Channels seven times and to the Antarctic twice. We have sailed quite a bit in the South Pacific including three trips from New Zealand to the West Coast of the US. We seem to go up wind a lot.
Rich has built seven boats starting with dingys. The last three boats we built together. The first was Confetti, the same design as TABU, which we launched in 1989 and sailed to Chile, the Falkland Islands, up to the Caribbean and then to Newport Beach. The second boat was Polar Mist, an aluminum cutter which we launched in 1996 and again sailed to Chile and then to the Antarctic and back to Newport Beach.
Since launching TABU in January of 2007 we have sailed her over 16,000 miles taking her as far south as Ecuador and enjoyed ourselves on three Baja Haha's with lots of cruising in Mexico.
All these miles have gone into making TABU a real sailors dream both under way and at anchor.
Richard has been sailing offshore since 1980 and Sheri since 1982. We both hold US Coast Guard 100 ton Open Oceans licenses and have each sailed over 300,000 miles of which about 80% are offshore miles.
We have been skippering and maintaining Orange Coast College's sail-training vessel Alaska Eagle since it was donated in England in 1982. Between Alaska Eagle and our own boats we have made three Transatlantic crossings and over twenty crossings between Hawaii and the mainland. We have been through the Chilean Channels seven times and to the Antarctic twice. We have sailed quite a bit in the South Pacific including three trips from New Zealand to the West Coast of the US. We seem to go up wind a lot.
Rich has built seven boats starting with dingys. The last three boats we built together. The first was Confetti, the same design as TABU, which we launched in 1989 and sailed to Chile, the Falkland Islands, up to the Caribbean and then to Newport Beach. The second boat was Polar Mist, an aluminum cutter which we launched in 1996 and again sailed to Chile and then to the Antarctic and back to Newport Beach.
Since launching TABU in January of 2007 we have sailed her over 16,000 miles taking her as far south as Ecuador and enjoyed ourselves on three Baja Haha's with lots of cruising in Mexico.
All these miles have gone into making TABU a real sailors dream both under way and at anchor.