OUR CAPTAIN
© 2001 Port to Port, LLC. All rights reserved.
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OUR CAPTAIN © 2001 Port to Port, LLC. All rights reserved. |
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 Our principle operating officer, Captain Coates, is a retired senior military officer who has been boating since his dad pushed him from shore in an 8’ Sabot in Alamitos Bay, California at the tender age of seven. Today he holds a U.S. Coast Guard Masters Ticket. His boating experience as a younger man was principally in competitive sailing in and around Southern California. This included Sabots, Snipes, Cal 20’s, and larger vessels such as Cal 36’s. At 16 he participated as crew aboard a Snipe in the Snipe National Championships, Lake Washington, Seattle, WA. As a 19 year old he served as watch captain aboard a Cal 36 participating in the TransPacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu, Hawaii and is a member of the TransPacific Yacht Club. At 21 he qualified for and competed in the Cal 20 National championship Regatta, Marina Del Rey, California. His 24 year active duty military in the Army put a crimp in his competitive sailing, but he continued his love for boating by owning/operating/enjoying various smaller power and sailboats near-shore and on lakes and rivers all over the United States and in Europe. After retiring in 1992, he moved aboard a 42’ trawler (pictured below) which he purchased in Southern California and skippered up the coast to Seattle, Washington in 1994.
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35 years later under all kinds of conditions in all kinds of weather with trips to Skagway and all points in between under his belt he heads up our operational team. He doesn’t pretend to know all there is to know about boating. “Anyone who claims that is a fool looking for a place to have an accident.” He is extremely conscientious in the operation of his own vessel, RANGER, and pledges that he and his crew will treat your vessel as though it were there own. We all look forward to making your acquaintance and becoming intimately acquainted with your vessel.
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