Together Suzi and Larry have spent many years on the water - lived aboard for ten years, traveled to Florida on the boat four times and twice to the Bahamas. If you're interested, they will keep you entertained with their sailor tales, songs and poems of the sea. If you would like, they can help you learn navigation, knot-tying (called 'marlinspike' in sailor talk), teach you the rules of the road, show you how to hoist the sails and keep them trimmed, and many other aspects of sailing.

Captain Larry MacDonald

First Mate Susan MacDonald

Captain Larry serves as your deck hand, grease monkey, bartender, singer, guitar player and poet. He has three kids (see right -- same ones). He originates from Allegany, New York, home of nothing in particular. Captain Larry has been sailing since he was a teenager on boats ranging from 9 feet long to 147 feet long. He has sailed on the Atlantic, on the Carribean, two of the Great Lakes, many inland lakes and briefly on the Pacific. He has experience as a boat carpenter, electrician, fine boat finisher, boat builder, boat rigger, and many other aspects of marina work. He also makes the best omelette in the world.

Saltwater Suzi serves as First Mate, navigator, hostess and chef. She originates from Bradford, Pa., home of Zippo Lighters, she is the mother of three: Scott, who is a photojournalist in Salinas, California; and twin daughters; Colleen MacDonald Kissell, who is an architect in Annapolis, MD, and Tara MacDonald Striffler who recently graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in elementary education and special education and now teaches school in Annapolis. Suzi loves the sea and puts up with Larry, though he thinks it's the other way around. Suzi and Larry have been married for over 41 years.