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| ODYSSEUS | | Captain: Jack Kelman | Nationality: | | Number of Crew 4 | | Crew Profiles:
Captain: Jack Kelman began skippering yachts at the young age of nine, with a Pelican class training yacht.
A casual position with a sailing school lead to an in depth study of aerodynamics and a rapidly increasing ability on the race coarse. Participation in the “ Darwin to Ambon International Yacht Race” to Indonesia was Jack's first step abroad and led to a victory in the cruising division on Jack's family yacht Wandjina in 1997.
With an increasing taste for life on the ocean Jack achieved commercial master status in Darwin , then joined the largest Australian company “Prosail Whitsunday” operating three day charters for the backpacker market in the Whitsunday Islands of Queensland . Here the sailing was six days a week, sails up and down twice a day and operating through both summer and winter seasons. Jack enjoyed sailing such yachts as Gretel , Australia 's first
Americas Cup challenger, Matador, the 1991 maxi world champion designed by NASA and The Card, the Swedish challenger in the early 1990's Whitbread Race.
After three years with Prosail Jack gained enough experience to enter the international arena of yachting and soon was positioned as first officer on the 96ft “Alize” in the port of Mallorca in Spain . Over the following two and a half years a solid grounding of the industry was established and the Mediterranean was traversed with several trips to Greece and Sardinia .
Jack became captain of Odysseus in January 2005 at the Island of St Martin and has enjoyed running luxury charters on the yacht throughout the entire Caribbean and New England.
His interests are yacht racing, snow skiing, photography and cinematography.
Chef: Jason Avakian was born and raised in Santa Barbara,Ca. He graduated from the California Culinary Academy,SanFrancisco in 1997. After completing his externship at Bradley Ogdon's”One Market” and honing his skills at the Clement St.Bar & Grill,it was time to head to the Virgin Islands to begin his cooking career on charter yachts.
Since December of 1998 Jason been pleasing guests and owners of yachts 75' to 160', completing over 75 weeks of charters and covering over 50,000 miles of ocean including 3 Trans Atlantic crossings, the Mediterranean, US East and West Coast (via Panama canal).
Deckhand: Tim Cooper has followed in his father's footsteps becoming a great surfer and previously lived close to the beach in Mooloolaba QLD. After finishing secondary school his interests in the marine environment took him professional fishing on one of the east coast's long lining vessels that would often stay at sea for a month at a time and travel as far as the north coast of New Zealand. Tim joined Odysseus in August 2006 and has since learned new and various skills to add to the wealth of experience gained in the professional fishing industry. He has taken to and really enjoys the sailing experience.
His hobbies and interests are surfing, fishing, sailing, and music.
Stewardess: TBD
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