Geographical Areas of 40 Years of Experience
East Coast and
Gulf of Mexico from Passamaquoddy, Maine to Brownsville, Texas.
Great Lakes from Quebec to Chicago, IL
Recency: New York Harbor, Long Island Sound, Delaware River, Philadelphia, Charleston, Jacksonville, St. Mary's, Fort Pierce, Freeport Bahamas (Pilotage Certificate), Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Fl. Homa, Port Fourchon, Amelia, Atchafalia, Bayou Chene, Morgan City, LA. Sabine, Port Arthur, Beaumont, Galvaston, Houston, Freeport, Corpus Christi, Ingleside, Port Isabel, TX.
Cape Cod Canal, Boston, Albany, Baltimore, Norfolk, Wilmington, Savannah, Brunswick, Cape Canaveral, Palm Beach, Key West, Fort Meyers, Port Charlotte, Tampa Bay, Mobile, Theodore, New Orleans.
San Francisco, Long Beach, San Diego, Santa Catalina, Astoria and Puget Sound
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Atlantic Islands
Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Ponta Delgada, Azores
Canada
Vancouver, Saint John, Digby, Lunenburg, Halifax, Canso, Bras d'Or Lake, Sidney, Charlottetown, PEI, Mont-Louis, Quebec City, Montreal
Bahamas
Most of the Bahamian out-islands including Long Island San Salvador Cat Island Eleuthera: Spanish Wells, Harbor Island, Governors Harbor. Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama Island; Freeport (have pilotage), Walkers Cay - Bimini - Cat Cay - Ocean Cay - Andros; Morgans Bluff, Fresh Creek, Driggs Hill - Nassau - Exumas; most Exuma Cays to Georgetown
Also; Provo and Grand Turks - Great Inagua
For 3 years in early 80's I was relief captain on several freighters working from Dania Fl to 57 different ports in the Bahamas so I have extensive experience through out the Islands.
Mexico
West Coast: Ensenada and Baha, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Acapulco, Puerto Madero.
East Coast: Progreso, Isla Mujeras, Cozumel
Caribbean
Belize: Turneffe Is
Honduras: Puerto Cortes, Roatan, Guanaja
Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Golfito
Panama: Panama Canal (13 transits), Taboga, Balboa, Colon, San Blas Islands
Ecuador: Guayaquil
Chili: Arica
Columbia: Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta
Venezuela: Maracaibo, Punto Fijo, Puerto Cabello, Los Roques
Netherland Antilles: Aruba, Curacao, St. Martin
Trinidad: Port-of-Spain
Windward Islands: Barbados, Martinique, Dominica, Antigua, St. Barts, St. Martin, Anguilla, St. Croix, Tortola, St. John, St. Thomas and many other islands around the Virgins
Puerto Rico: Culebra, Vieques, Roosevelt Roads, San Juan
Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo, Las Calderas, Puerto Plata
Haiti: Cap-Haitien, LaBade, Gonaives, Port-au-Prince
Jamaica: Kingston, Port Royal, Port Esquevel, Port Antonio, Montego Bay
Cayman Islands: Georgetown, Cayman Brac
Cuba: Guantanamo, Havana
Europe
England: Southampton, Hamble, Cowes, Portsmouth, Hull, Newcastle, South Shields
Holland: Ijmuiden, Rotterdam
Denmark: Alborg
Portugal: Lisbon
Spain: Vigo, Ceuta, Gibraltar, Algeciras, Barcelona
France: Marseille, Toulon, Cannes
Monaco
Italy: Genoa, La Spezia, Naples, Messina
Greece: Corinth Canal, Piraeus, Rhodes
Malta
Egypt: Alexandria, Port Said, Suez
Oman: Salalah, Muscat
UAE: Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman
Africa: Lagos, Nigeria; Port-Gentil, Gabon
Pacific
Hawaii: Kauai, Niihau, Oahu