Crew

 

Ole is the master of all things mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, navigational, electronic, buoyant and bottled.  Onboard he is the deck, engine, carpentry, painting and facilities department, as well as the designated food taster and wife warmer.

While not aboard Emma Jo, he can be found on one of Royal Caribbean’s ships, heading up the engine department.

Here he is in standard tropical day uniform, contemplating the autopilot.

Jan acts as figurehead, chef, assistant navigator, deckhand, bartender, chief housekeeper, accountant,  knot specialist, cruise director, naturalist, cat steward, and husband snuggler.

This standard, out-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean uniform is vintage Tahiti, circa 1985.,

While onboard, she works as a freelance copywriter whenever there’s an internet connection.

 

 

Barclay was the designated sea-dog, assistant food-taster, dock inspector, and rat catcher extraordinaire.  She spoke several languages and was an excellent swimmer.  In her spare time, she studied philosophy and comparative religion. She passed away April 16, 2011, at the venerable age of 19 and was buried at sea with full honors and a bouquet of gardenias several miles offshore from Huatulco, Mexico.

 

Maggie (the Baroness Mary Margaret von Stripenfurs) pictured here in her usual attitude, was with us for nearly 16 years, and traveled to the clearing at the end of the path on January 29, 2010. She was buried with dignity at sea in the Secas Islands of Panama, and her final resting place was noted on the chart.