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Pendragon & her Crew |
Pendragon will make the crossing with a crew of five. While all of the crew are
experienced sailors, none has made an Atlantic crossing under sail before.
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Amelia Fawcett (49) - Challenge Leader: Amelia started sailing at a young age on the coasts of Maine
and Massachusetts in the United States. Amelia's experience is mostly limited to coastal sailing and
cruising with some offshore voyaging to the Canadian Maritimes. Amelia brings her considerable
management leadership and motivational skills to this very important effort.
Amelia is Vice Chairman of
Morgan Stanley
International, a key Anchor Sponsor, and
has been based in London with Morgan Stanley for almost 20
years. She started her career at the New York law firm of
Sullivan & Cromwell
another important Anchor Sponsor
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Sean Fawcett (48) - Skipper: Sean has raced, cruised and delivered yachts, both power and sail,
in almost every ocean in the world. His offshore experience includes several Bermuda Races, Fastnet
Races and Halifax Races. He has raced in the Admiral's Cup, the Kenwood Cup, One Ton Cup, Key West
Race Week, and more. Professionally, Sean's career in yacht design includes work on the
designs of Maxi Boats "Sovereign" and "Drumbeat" and America's Cup winners "Stars and Stripes '87" and
"America 3". Amelia's younger brother, Sean also manages the Providence Boat Show in Providence,
RI and provides web-based business management consulting through Fawcett Associates.
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Nick Brabner (67) - Watch Captain, Chief Engineer:
Nick has been sailing for 50 years. His ancestors
were from a Guernsey family whose Clipper fleet floundered
trying to compete with steam! Really sad about failing
entrance to Dartmouth at 12 he became a mechanical engineer,
later quitting to take on the family business,
Gliffaes Country
House Hotel, which is now run by
daughter and son- in- law (3rd generation). While most of
his experience until 1990 was coastal sailing, he has logged
nearly 8,000 nautical miles of ocean sailing in Europe, the
Mediterranean, the Adriatic, the Caribbean, Australia and
New Zealand.
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Jim Gammill (52) - Navigator: Jim raced and taught sailing throughout
his teens in Long Island Sound, Maine and Massachusetts. He studied
Celestial Navigation at Harvard and thought he was headed to sea after
graduation, but instead signed on with an Annapolis graduate with a
different course, serving four years on Jimmy Carter's campaign and
White House staffs. After leaving Washington, Jim received a Ph.D.
from M.I.T., taught finance at Harvard and M.I.T., worked for
Salomon's fixed income derivatives business, and now develops
risk management systems for deployment in the
latest grid computing networks.
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Nicholas Salmons (21) - Foredeck: Growing up with a love of the water, Nick
learned to sail from an early age at his family's summer home in
Jamestown, Rhode Island, to which he has returned every summer to
rekindle his courtship of the sea. Logging most of his sailing hours
off of coastal New England, he recently completed his first partial
Atlantic crossing last summer, sailing from the Azores to Gibraltar,
and now looks forward to finally going the full distance! Nick will be
going into his final year studying Political Science at McGill
University. He is looking to pursue a career in the field of
international business and development and has plans to study the
politics of development and social justice this Fall in Fortaleza,
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