Meet the River Crew, Part I: Catherine, Johnny, and Adam
Mississippi River, Mile 129
Bloomsdale, MO
Log Entry by Program Manager Tatiana Dalton
Friday, October 28, 2022
14:55
Welcome to Meet the River Crew, in which I will take the liberty of introducing you to each member of our crew, in no particular order. Here’s the rules:
Hometown Where did you grow up? Where do you call home?
First Boat What was the first boat you can remember sailing/motoring/paddling on? What was the first boat you joined as a crew member?
Best Wildlife What was the best wildlife you’ve ever seen on a boat?
Best Food What was the best food you’ve ever eaten on a boat?
Not Boats What is something you do or have done in your life that isn’t boat-related? Something that you care about, a hobby, a past job or experience…
Boat Pet If you could have any boat pet, what would it be and what would you name it?
Here we go!
Catherine Baum
2022 Americorps Deckhand Educator and Program Coordinator
Catherine has been a member of our crew since December 2021.
Hometown Great Barrington, Massachusetts
First Boat “Does a canoe count?” The first boat she can remember stepping on was a pontoon boat on Little Lake in the upper peninsula of Michigan—the first boat she sailed aboard as crew was the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Best Wildlife During this spring’s northbound transit from St. Croix to Boston on Roseway, she saw dolphins with bioluminescence on them somewhere around the Dominican Republic
Best Food When Jake made gyros on Roseway
Not Boats Swimming, specifically swimming in a duck pond in Wellfleet, MA
Boat Pet Catherine would have a boat cow named James Taylor
Johnny Davenport
Second Mate
This is Johnny’s first time sailing with World Ocean School.
Hometown Johnny grew up in the Chesapeake Bay and currently lives in Eastern Connecticut
First Boat He grew up racing dinghies, but his introduction to wooden boats was in Maine, where he spent a season sailing 30’ open boats with up to 13 students aboard; he then finished up that same season sailing on three-masted Chesapeake Bay ram schooner Victory Chimes—about the most dramatic change you could get from one wooden boat to another
Best Wildlife He once saw a fox on Fort Carol in Baltimore Harbor—another time, he saw a black bear from a canoe
Best Food He worked with a cook on Lady Maryland who made whole turkey legs for the crew to wave at their competition at the start of the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race
Not Boats Skiing and snowboarding in wintertime
Boat Pet Johnny has a cat named Gants’l who doesn’t particularly like to sail but has been underway on Johnny’s 34’ sailboat; he is named after a type of square sail!
Adam Young
2023 Americorps Deckhand Educator
Adam has been a member of our crew since September 2022.
Hometown Macon, Georgia
First Boat A sunset sailer in Croatia; but before that, a Disney Fantasy cruise ship—his first time as crew was on the Corwith Cramer with Sea Education Association
Best Wildlife When he was a student with Sea Education Association, aboard the Robert C. Seamans off of Maui—at 0400 a pod of humpback whales started circling the ship and even went under the bowsprit! He also saw some great dolphins and whales on Cramer during storms off Cape Cod when they couldn’t even see the horizon
Best Food Honey foccacia bread during his student trip on Seamans
Not Boats Traveling, playing piano, cooking curries
Boat Pet Adam would have a dog named Sparky (named after his brother’s old dog and his family’s small boat back home)
