Volunteer Donald Dellis
Donald Dellis is a Bay Area native, growing up in Redwood City, then residing in SF and now Oakland. He enjoyed dinghy sailing as a kid at summer camp. At a high school job
Volunteer Pete Strietmann
Like so many other shipbuilding volunteers here at Call of the Sea, Pete Strietmann noticed the tall ship tent in 2013 and wandered in to see what was happening. He started volunteering, helping build Matthew
Shea Hastings, Sailing Volunteer
Where do you come from, and were you involved with boats there? I've lived my entire life in Walnut Creek CA; however I've always had a connection to the ocean
Volunteer of the Month
Meet Alice Collier Cochran Call of the Sea Board Vice-Chair Growing up in Richmond, Virginia, my first experiences sailing were on family vacations in Hancock Point, Maine where my grandparents
Volunteer Frank Schlosser
I was born in Allentown, PA, and didn’t get interested in boats until I moved to California. I restored an old canoe and then built my first cedar strip canoe. Then I got interested
Volunteer Profile Cat Crow
Originally from the Midwest, Volunteer Cat Crow’s lifelong connection to the water began with small-boat sailing on Lake Michigan, canoeing in the Northwoods, and kayaking on Lake Superior. After graduating college, their passion for
Volunteer of the Month Marcy Pattinson
Meet Volunteer of the Month Marcy Taylor Pattinson I came to San Francisco from the countryside north of Chicago in 1970, so The Bay Area has been home for the
An Interview With Volunteer Gordon Worley
Where do you come from, and were you involved with boats there? I spent a 40+ year career as an emergency department nurse, helicopter flight nurse, emergency nurse practitioner, and educator. I retired in 2022
Mike Wing, Marin Volunteer of the Year
Call of the Sea volunteer Mike Wing named Center for Volunteer Non Profit Leadership's annual Heart of Marin Volunteer of the Year! Mike Wing has been an active volunteer at Call of the
Interview with Volunteer Gwen Holst
Where do you come from, and were you involved with boats there? I am a Bay Area native who returned in 2021 after 9 years in Los Angeles. Growing up here, my first tall
An Interview with Alan Olson
Alan Olson on Building Tall Ships An Interview by Mo Roddy for Latitude 38's Good Jibes Podcast Alan is the founder of Call of the Sea, and was the Project Director for
Volunteer Profile, Chad Brubaker
Chad is one of our regular, weekly sailing volunteers, devoting weekends and many midweek days to sailing alongside the full time live aboard crew. Chad has developed skills in tall ship crewing and teaching