Schooner Yacht HERON
Crew
Schooner
Yacht HERON is a US Coast
Guard inspected vessel and is family owned & operated.
Captains
Bonnie Schmidt & Nigel
Bower are USCG licensed and have been sailing for over 25 years.
The
last 11 years they chartered
their boat SHANTIH II from Rockport Harbor, Maine.
Before
that their sailing has taken
them on several trans-Atlantic trips between Europe and the Caribbean
and
sailing the Atlantic seaboard
from the Caribbean to Canada.
Bonnie
also has a degree in Environmental
Education and loves to share her knowledge of the marine life of Maine.
Nigel
"Twig" is a Master Shipwright
and has been restoring & building wooden boats since 1987. Schooner
HERON is his latest project.
Daughters
Elissa & Rachel have
been sailing since they were born and are at home on the boat. They
really
know their
way
around the bay and are the
first to point out any wildlife. Join them for the sail of a lifetime.