'great IRG videos on youtube! 

Hopefully I can find the sloop in Zihua Bay OK, on Wednesday.

Hello Captain,

I recently joined the Sailing Sailors Project Group through Couchsurfing.com. I noticed a posting on that groups page stating that this organization was sending a boat for a relief effort in Mexico, and was looking for deck hands.

I would love to join the effort however I can. I live in San Diego right now. I have some experience on ship, and would love to travel and help however I can. I am a former Navy sailor with medical experience as a corpsman. Thank you for the opportunity, and I look forward to participating. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Captain Ray, Is there a phone number I can reach you at?  I'd like to chat for a few minutes, thought it would be nicer over the phone.  Thanks. 

Hello Captain Ray,

I am from Chicago.  I have been talking with Evelyne about IRG and about the potential of sailing on Thunderbird 1.  I wanted to say hello, introduce myself, and hopefully have a chance to chat with you. 

Ahoy Captain Ray, I am based in Norwalk, CT on Long Island Sound, although I grew up on SF Bay and only sold my house in Mill Valley in 2009. I have sailed around a bit, across the Pacific to Japan and back, West coast from Vancouver to San Diego, East Coast from Maine to Key West, around the Caribbean from the BVI's to Belize. I was a captain for Greenpeace in 2006 sailing on Witness, a Mason 44, and then co-founder and first Exec Director of OceansWatch USA, a branch of OceansWatch in New Zealand. In 2010 I helped organize and sailed with a flotilla of 6-7 boats from Florida and the Bahamas to Haiti after the January earthquake delivering aid, then sailed to Haiti again from the VA Chesapeake on a Gulfstar 50 carrying 6000 pounds of aid supplies and stayed ashore to end a hand on projects for 6 weeks after we got there. Not sure if you have been in touch with OceansWatch, but might be worthwhile coordinating unless there  a culture clash or something in the way. I resigned from OWNA in 2010 upon returning from Haiti and sailed there in 2011 with a Canadian outfit, a captain who sails there every year for the last 13 years or so. Nice to meet you guys and see what you are up to. Hope to connect and see you on the water some day. I plan to sail down to the Carib again soon, probably next winter and maybe join the Cornell's Blue Water Rally round the world in 2014. Fair winds, Sequoia.

Hello Captain Ray,

I am in Guadeloupe and I also learn about your group on LinkedIn sailing group ! I sent a message on couchsurfing to Captain Evelyne on thunderbir1, few days ago and think that crew is completed and T1 is underway may be now ! Do you always need crew in April ?

Thanks, Ray! I'll plan to come help on Thunderbird 2 soon!

 Hey,

when is that Thunderbird 1 be in need of crew?

I understood  the post to mean that there are various needs before April and at the end of April?

t wishes

thank you for your update Captain! 

I'm still in Costa Rica as Karaka has not departed yet and in fact has changed course. She is  now going to Panama instead of Ecuador. This is due to difficulties getting hold on of a new main sail.