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Captain
& Crew
Captain:
Juergen Thieme
Crew:
Brigitte (Gitti) Thieme
Qualifications:
Both, Juergen and Gitti attended school for six months in the Fall and Spring of 2004/2005, respectively, to study for their 100 ton master license. They both passed all tests with flying colors and received their licenses in the Spring of 2005. Since then, they are both officers of the US Merchant Marine.
Sailing& Experience as of January 2007:
Initial:
Captain Juergen: ever since he was a student in Hamburg and sailed on the city lake, the Alster. "Real" sailing only began in the US in 1976 after we bought our first Impromptu, an O'Day 25.
Crew (navigator, helms(wo)man, cook, etc.): Gitti: since 1976 after we had purchased our first boat, the O'Day 25, Impromptu.
Joint Sailing Experience: Both Captain and Crew:
3 round trips to Bermuda, 2 on our CAL 39 and 1 on our Hallberg-Rassy 46, many trips to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, Newport, Cape Cod, Cape Ann, the Chesapeak Bay, New York City, lots of sailing weekends within and beyond the Long Island Sound and, meanwhile, our crossing of the Atlantic from Montauk, Long Island, via the Azores, to England and from there across the Channel to Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and back, crossing the Channel a total of 3 times, the last time from the Isle of Wight via Guernsey to France, Southwest from there through the Channel, along the Britanny Coast to La Rochelle.
We have experienced a number of storms, innumerous gales but also wonderfully pleasant days at sea. We still love it, despite my seasickness, and we hope to keep sailing, albeit in more local waters, for many more years.
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