My Experience, License & Documents
I began sailing as a child in the 1960's, on freshwater lakes in Maryland and Virginia in my trusted Sunfish. As I entered my teen years, I graduated to bigger waters: the Chesapeake and Penobscot Bays, and the Atlantic of coastal Florida, (where I sail-surfed waves well before 'windsurfing' was realized).
As my love for wind and water grew, I sailed with my mom after school and on weekends on her Columbia 22 all around Baltimore's waterways.
Summers in Bayside Maine brought me even closer to my growing passion. There I deepened in myself an intuitive, 'felt' understanding of the winds and currents and waves. Friends and I would sail every day, all day, for these three months. And it was here in Maine that this lifelong love of sailing evolved into a lifelong profession as well.
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LICENSES:
USCG 100 ton #1187567, current TWIC and Maritime Consortium drug-free certification
AGE: Born in 1959
RAISED:
On the Chesapeake, winters, and on Penobscot Bay Maine, summers
SAILING EXPERIENCE:
I learned to sail at age 11, in 1970, and have sailed incessantly since.
My mother, sister and I sailed in Maryland spring and fall, delivering our various boats up north each year for the summer in Maine.
Through my teenage years I taught sailing and raced at Northport Yacht Club in Maine.
I did my first delivery (a Swan 65) in 1980, and have done numerous since.
In the 1990’s I lived aboard my Sparkman & Stevens 35 with my wife, bringing us from Annapolis to Miami.
For the past few years I’ve peppered my delivery work with charter work, generally week-long sails, for Hinckley out of Southwest Harbor Maine, and soon on my own sailboat in the Caribbean as well.
I have always raced and will continue to race as skipper or crew on many boats wherever I find myself living.
PRESENT HOME: Coastal Maine in summer, Caribbean islands in fall/winter/spring
PROFESSIONAL GOALS:
To deliver sail and power boats anywhere, charter out of the Caribbean, Maine or distant ports, teach & coach sailing to people of all ages … anything maritime, as my passion is to be on boats or at sea.
CONTACT:
E-mail: scottmills@captainladd.com Ι captainladd@gmail.com