Locations/Staff

Mark Chandler
West Coast

Years of Sailing / Boating: 40

Type of Sailing: Cruising & Racing

Rigging Experience: 14 years

Professional Experience/Specialty: Many offshore miles racing and cruising.  Mooring system fabrication and installation.  Inshore racing Melges 20/24/32s, J-105, most ULDBs, multihulls.

Personal Activities and Interests: Hobie farming, racing sailboats, robotics, kids.

Noel Johnson
Newport, Rhode Island

Years of Sailing/ Boating: 40+

Type of Sailing: Cruising, racing, and professional chartering crew

Rigging Experience: 5 years

Professional Experience/Specialty: Lifelong sailor with over 20,000 offshore delivery miles including a nonstop solo trip from Stewart Fla to Newport RI . Dinghy racing Laser, 420's; keelboat racing , J24, TP52, 12 meters, and club boats.

Personal Activities and Interests: Sailing, Skiing, moutain and road biking, rollerblading, scuba and free diving; anything to satisfy my adrenaline addiction!

Julian Richards
Annapolis, Maryland

Years of Sailing / Boating: 35

Type of Sailing: Cruising & Racing

Rigging Experience: 10 years

Professional Experience/Specialty: Hotel and catering management, boat building, captain and skippering, charter business, built two boats with family. Two transatlantic crossings, live aboard for 5 years

Personal Activities and Interests: Sailboat Racing, Golf, Reading, Travel.

Pete Ackerman,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Years of Sailing / Boating: 45

Type of Sailing: Cruising & Racing

Rigging Experience: 15 years

Professional Experience / Specialty: Captain of sailing and power vessels with deliveries up and down entire east coast, ocean deliveries to the Caribbean, Newport to Bermuda 3 times and back, commercial fisherman

Personal Activities and Interests: Racing Sailboats, Marine Botany, Vintage Motorcycles, Golf.

Cliff Hennen
Seattle, Washington

Years of Sailing / Boating: 25

Type of Sailing: Cruising & Racing

Rigging Experience: 8 years

Professional Experience/Specialty: Specialize in prepping boats for cruising, rigging for safety and ease of use for offshore sailing.

Personal Activities and Interests: Sailing, Windsurfing, Kiting, anything wind related, Camping, Hiking, Skiing.

Ryan Nelson
Alameda, California

Years of Sailing / Boating: 25

Type of Sailing: Racing

Rigging Experience: 6 years

Professional Experience/Specialty: Dinghy racing 505, Laser, Skiff, Keel boat racing J24, ID35, sailing instructor 10 years, 6 pack captains license, Masters of Arts in Sculpture and Painting.

Personal Activities and Interests:: Racing Sailboats, Surfing, Indoor Soccer and Skiing.

David Eberhard
San Diego, California

Years of Sailing / Boating: 32

Type of Sailing: Cruising

Rigging Experience: 4 years

Professional Experience/Specialty: Managed quality control laboratory for 10 years, 15 years as a plant manager for a manufacturing plant built a Roberts 44 cruising sailboat in steel.

Personal Activities and Interests: Live aboard, Cruising, Boat Building, Bicycling, Sailing.

Jason Hudson
Kemah, Texas

Years of Sailing / Boating: 6

Type of Sailing: Cruising

Rigging Experience: 2 years

Professional Experience/Specialty: Live aboard on a 47 foot Lagoon with many open ocean miles, worked in the Alameda and San Diego Rigging Shops before relocating to our newest shop in Kemah TX.

Personal Activities and Interests: Cruising the open oceans with his family, spending time with his wife and children exploring distant lands.

Bill - Wire/Rod Sales & Support

With West Marine since: 1996

Specialties: Lifelines, Rod and Standing Rigging

Other Interests: Guitars

From: West Virginia

Paul - Rope/Line Sales & Support

With West Marine since: 2011

Specialties: Racing Lines, Docklines

Other Interests: linux, boat restorations

From: North Carolina

Aaron - Wire Lead

With West Marine since: 1999

Specialties: Wire Swaging, Regatta Support, Hydraulics, New Shop Construction

Other Interests: Hockey, NFL, Fishing & Hunting

From: Florida

Jason - Rope Lead

With West Marine since: 1999

Specialties: Specialty Splicing & Double Covers

Other Interests: Cooking, Pool, Darts

From: Ohio

Beau - Wire Production

With West Marine since: 1999

Specialties: Lifeline & Standing Rigging Swaging

Other Interests: Hunting & Trucks

From: South Carolina

Bacon - Rope Production

With West Marine since: 2008

Specialties: Docklines and other Braided Lines

Other Interests: 80's Horror Movies, Batman

From: Arizona

Donnie - Rope Production

With West Marine since: 2005

Specialties: Workboats, is a Licensed Captain - 100T Aux/Sail Radar

Other Interests: Fishing and his grandchildren

From: South Carolina

Dustin - Rope Production

With West Marine since: 2007

Specialties: Premades, Halyards, Lifeslings, Soft Shackles

Other Interests: Wild Life Conservation, Online Gaming

From: California

Eddie - Rope Production

With West Marine since: 1998

Specialties: Specialty Knots & Marlinspike Seamanship

Other Interests: Outdoors

From: South Carolina

Rob - Rope Production

With West Marine since: 2008

Specialties: Race Car Tethers, Wire/Rope splicing

Other Interests: Rock&Metal Music

From: South Carolina