Brigantine Matthew Turner
Capt. Adrian McCullough
Adrian McCullough started his sailing career at age 15 on a French training ship following the footsteps of Christopher Columbus and unearthing the mystery of the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. He then finished a university degree in Environmental Studies and Geography before heading back out to sea. Over the last 30 years Adrian studied traditional wooden boat building at a small school on a remote British Columbian island and has continued his maritime service aboard traditional ships and schooners. A partial list includes SV Schooner Adventuress, SV Irving Johnson, SV Exy Johnson, SV Bill of Rights, SV Lady Washington, and SV Hawaiian Chieftain. The mission of these vessels is youth education and sail training. While working on those vessels, Adrian has honed his teaching and sail training skills in a variety of programs and environments. He has also been involved in several conservation initiatives. Adrian’s most recent work experience was with the National Park Service onboard the National Historic Landmark SV Alma (1891) as a Captain for the 2018 sailing season. Prior to this, he worked on SV Freda B for eight seasons, serving as a master for the last three. Adrian brings extensive local knowledge and the proven ability to successfully navigate through challenging and ever changing conditions of San Francisco Bay and west coast with professional crews and volunteers while carrying passengers and students. In early 2018, Adrian began as a rigger and adviser on Matthew Turner and is now currently the Captain.
Mate Rebecca Johnson
Rebecca got started on tall ships as a volunteer on the Barque Elissa while going to college at Texas Maritime Academy. After graduating she spent three years sailing on the schooner Mary Day out of Camden, Maine. For the past several years she has been sailing around the north Atlantic and south Pacific on the brigantines Corwith Cramer and Robert C Seamans teaching students how to sail the vessels, and conducting scientific research. Rebecca is excited about the opportunity to sail on a new vessel.
Bosun Nicholas Canaparo
My name is Nicholas Canaparo. I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, growing up sailing and exploring the waters and mountains which I to call home. I am a professional educator and mariner, holding a B.A. in adventure education as well as merchant mariner ratings in both the United States and the Nederlands. I began working in the field of outdoor and adventure based education in 2013 and have since taken part and lead expedition based programs with students all over the world: from climbing expeditions in the Himalayas, to leading Outward Bound courses off the granite coast of Maine. For the past five years, I have focused on working mentoring students in the unique lessons that can be learned aboard sailing vessels. I recently worked for a high school at sea with sixty students sailing from Amsterdam to the Caribbean and back over the course of a nine month school year. I am excited to return to the San Francisco Bay and join the amazing team of Call of The Sea.
Deckhand Educator Thanie Pesavento
After moving to the Bay Area from my home in Brazil in 2013, I became interested in sailing. I learned to sail keelboats up to 30’ at OCSC in Berkeley. Since then, I have sailed up the California coast on a tall ship called Lady Washington through Grey’s Harbor Historical Seaport, as well as sailing Lady Washing around the Bay. My first touch with Call of the Sea was as a Volunteer, helping to build Matthew Turner, where I met tons of wonderful people. I was privileged enough to join the crew of Seaward for this season, and I am extremely excited for this new chapter of my sailing career.
