Volunteers

An Interview with Alan Olson

January 18th, 2023|

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 building brigantine Matthew Turner, logging countless volunteer hours. He built his first boat at age 22, has over 60 years of

Volunteer Charlie Walther

January 5th, 2021|

Charlie grew up where there were no boats, in Redding, CA, on a ranch.  Attending both Cal Poly and Cal Maritime, he proceeded to work as an engineer on boats, as an administrator, and as a Director of Engineering for various fleets before starting his own company 30 years ago where he has done

Sewing Team!

April 17th, 2018|

The sewing team at work making chafe guards for mooring lines and repairing Seaward's sail cover.   Starbuck Canvas Works is generously donating use of their space and mentoring us on the canvas projects for Matthew Turner. 

Drone Captures Topgallant Yard Uprig

February 26th, 2018|

Peter Streitman took some wonderful drone footage of Kiel and Randall hoisting the topgallant yard last Friday. Photo by Benson Lee shows Matthew Turner with her full compliment of yards. 

Work Aloft

February 21st, 2018|

At work on the yards,  Randall Landaiche, Noah Limbach and Bruce Lindsey, core members of the rigging team.

Tent Farewell

February 19th, 2018|

Last Thursday, enjoying a final get together at the tent, and today...the tent comes down! Thank you to all you wonderful volunteers and donors who have gotten us this far along.

Soft Shackles and the Up-Rig Continues!

January 31st, 2018|

Photos: Rich Schaper took a stunning shot of MT from his boat. Noah spend hours aloft rigging the course yard.  Dan Higgins was busy last night, making the largest soft shackles any of us had ever seen!

Rigging Underway

January 19th, 2018|

The Rigging and Fittings teams are working on getting yards and  standing rigging ready for raising the yards in a couple weeks!