Boat Handling, Navigation and Voyage Planning Instructions

Sail With Captain Noel

Captain Noel, owner of the customized Newport is what you might call a sailors sailor. Noel is friendly, fun-loving, easy-going and solidly built and just the kind of experienced mariner you'd want at the helm in a mid-ocean gale.

His maritime experience began in the waters off Hilton Head Island where he sailed catamarans, dinghies and fished as a kid, never far from the water. During the summers of high school and college years he sailed on private yachts, crew boats and supply boats in the Gulf of Mexico.
Noel has worked as an computer systems engineer for Dr. Ing. Rudolph Hell, GmbH in Kiel, West Germany before moving back to the states and working for the New York Times Companies setting up computer systems for their subsidiary newspaper throughout the U.S. The disparate entries on his resume include sailing instructor at the Diego Garcia Yacht Club in the Indian Ocean and sailboat racing
in the San Francisco Bay. Charter boat captain in Pensacola, Florida and the Caribbean. Dynamic positioning officer on Kongsberg SDP31/32 equiped sub-sea construction vessels. He has sailed over 25,000 miles on 300 class LMSR naval supply ships to the Middle East in support of operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.