77-78: Te Quest, New Beginnings, Orion, Delta

Nowadays:

• Attended h.s. in Rome, Italy. (Notre Dame Int'l School)
• 1986 Graduated h.s. in Vancouver, Canada
• 1996 Got married to Chantal in Vancouver, Canada
• 1997 Graduated with a Masters degree in Architecture from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• New Year's Eve 1998 Daughter Danielle born and the second is on the way (due Dec/01)!
• Presently working at David Nairne + Associates in North Vancouver, BC, Canada (Architectural, Structural, Civil, Planning and Project Management) as an Architect.

would love to hear from people aboard at the same time. what i remember:

• me pouting like the 9 year-old home-sick schmuck that i was!
• "Hey, Becky (Noble..the cook) What are we eating tonight?" The same reply every time: "Shark Soup!"
• the endless BRAINWASHING about the COMMIE'S coming over the hill to get us in our sleep...and being ''graded'' on our notes of it.
• silk screening our innitials with Betty
• te Quest losing it''s anchor
• Poozle Brady
• Dirk Jabin and I getting paid $0.75/hour to clean bilges
• only having 36 bucks at the beginning of the year and spending most of it on Danish pastry in the first two weeks
• never being more than an APS in rank cuz i couldn't care less about naming the parts of an outboard motor
• sleeping on top of the water tanks in shaft alley during watch
• my number 10 pail
• HUGE water fights between Eldarado and New Beginnings
• losing my rank for sanctioning someone else swiping an extra dessert when someone of a higher rank originally wanted it.
• how to tie a bunch of cool knots
• land tour
• scrubbing the hull of puke before sailing into Monaco
• doing pull-ups (trying to at least) on the rolling bar at te Quest's stairwell
• braiding a plastic lanyard with a shackle at the end
• swimming in the freezing atlantic ocean for ''exercise''
• the paint raft