Boat Name	Bio's	Websites & Theme Songs
Dakare	Dan and Karen, US sailors. We have been cruising full time since 1997. During that period we have made it across the Atlantic & into the Pacific Oceans, through theCaribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the South Pacific as far as the Society Islands and the Mediterranean. We are looking forward to our Mid East passage with the Levante Basin Rally. Our cat Joshua must be one of the best traveled cats in the world. This will be our 4th rally. The column to the right contains pointers to our home page and a music player for our Theme Song	WWW.Dakare.Com Use the Controls on Player below to start & stop the music. Volare --> Sung as Dakare
Equus	Steve and Patricia, US sailors. Our home Equus is a Camper Nicholson, 14 meter ketch. We have been live-a-board sailors since July 2000. We started our journey in The Back Creek of Annapolis, MD. We have sailed the East coast, leaving Norfolk on Thanksgiving Day, 2000 and headed to Bermuda, then down to the Caribbean. Then sailed the rhumb line to Flores, the most northern of the Azores islands. Then on to Portugal, Spain, The Balearics, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Croatia, Greece and we now reside in Marmaris, Turkey, eagerly awaiting the start of our Levant Basin Cruise.	Slow Boat to China Theme Song Use the Controls on Player below to start & stop the music.
Escape Key	Fred bought his first sailboat, a Moth, in 1968. A Moth is an 11' surfboard with a 90 sq ft sail and is about as easy to sail as an F-16 is to fly without a user manual. The Moth was replaced by a more conventional 14' Blue Jay and the progression started. Jane and I bought our first sailboat with a cabin in 1978 and Escape Key, the product of a mid-life crisis, is our fifth boat. We cruised up and down the ICW during an 8-month sabbatical that was intended to culminate in the Bahamas, but didn't get beyond Marathon, in the Florida Keys. The pattern of slow cruising was never broken. We cruised full-time to warm places from our home in New England (USA) for two years in the late 90's, and then reentered the world of the gainfully employed. It took another 3 years to become permanent pariahs of society. We commissioned Escape Key in 2000 and took delivery a year later in France where we had been working. We wintered in St. Raphael, France; Biograd, Croatia and Keci Buku, Turkey and plan on keeping Escape Key in Turkey for a few more years. The Levant Basin Rally represented an opportunity to see a part of the world at a cruising pace that we would not have visited alone.
Kelearin	Jim has been a sailor for nearly all his life of 56 years, so far. Joy married into the sport 33 years ago. They built their first joint vessel, Fenwick Light, a 32 ft Yachtcraft sloop and sailed it from San Diego to Desolation Sound in British Columbia and back to Mexico during the 13 years they owned her. In 1991 they sized up a few notches and bought Kelaerin, a 46 ft Omega cutter and promptly took off cruising with their two daughters, Kelly and Erin (after whom the boat was named). That cruise took them from Washington state down the Pacific Coast of the US, Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama, through the Panama Canal, the San Blas Islands, back to Mexico and then to Key West, Florida. Cruising got sidelined for a few years while trying out mountain life, working, educating the girls and a year long stint in Paraguay then picked up again in earnest in 1997 when they cruised to Puerto Rico. They have been living aboard since then and made a trans Atlantic crossing in 1992 to the Mediterranean with winters spent in Spain, Italy and Turkey. The Levante Basin Rally extends their cruising to the Middle East with plans to transit the Red Sea in the winter of 2005 and to points eastward, hopefully to circumnavigate. Yes, they are going the wrong way around. Hey, they never said they were doing it the easy way or the right way, but they are DOING IT!!!!
Moonraker	Manny and Barbara – US sailors. We have been sailing for 30 years but not until Manny retired in 1996 could we afford the time for extended cruising. After selling our home in Oklahoma, we moved aboard Moonraker and have cruised the Bahamas and Caribbean extensively. In 2002 we crossed the Atlantic and since then have been sailing in the Mediterranean. We now have a home near Dallas, Texas close to our grand children, where we spend the winter. We are very excited about participating in the Levante Basin Rally and look forward to sharing great moments with all other participants.
Moose	Richard and Adrienne - Richard learnt to sail in the Army. By the time he retired he was regularly representing his corps as both a racing skipper and as a cruising skipper nursing beginners along. After his retirement in 1998 we bought Moose and took her to Bristol where we spent two years converting her as a long term live aboard. We made the well worn trip from England to the Mediterranean in the summer of 2000 and have been cruising here ever since. We are both looking forward to the Levante Basin Rally of 2005 and seeing countries that we might not have otherwise visited
Sea Swallow	Bill and Jacquelin Bennett are from Charleston, SC. We crossed the Atlantic with our three children in May 2001. Bill is a sailor from childhood; Jacquelin is leaning as she goes. We spent our first winter at St. Katherine's where we met Wayward Wind. We had a wedding for our daughter, sailed the Baltic, spent the next winter in Paris, had a wedding for our son, then spent the third winter in Sevilla. We are now in beautiful Kemer anticipating a wonderful time with the Levante curisers. This is our first "rally."
Soleil Sans Fin	Bill and Jean - We finished our expatriate high pressure property development and construction careers in London in 1999 and sailed away. The highlight of our cruising was a month in the Canal du Midi where the fine wine and fine dining are at your doorstep. Our cruising is really a search for a place to stop when we finish cruising or when we grow up, which ever comes first. So far France or Italy are our top spots for life on land. We are continually energised by the generous and sincere members of the cruising community that we meet along the way. For us the Levante Basin last year was our most exotic experience in the Med. We look forward to the 2005 Levante Basin Cruise with excited anticipation. The enthusiasm shown by those participating in the cruise is a good look into the crystal ball of the season ahead.
Two Step	Paul and Sheryl Shard, Canadian sailors, authors and filmmakers, Paul and Sheryl Shard, have been cruising and living aboard their self-built Classic 37 sailboat, Two-Step, since 1989. They have logged over 40,000 nautical miles, crossed the Atlantic Ocean three times, and sailed to over 35 countries and colonies in the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the Mediterranean. Their participation in the Levant Cruise will be their first visit to the Middle East. The Shards are contributing writers for many sailing publications including Cruising World and Blue Water Sailing, are the authors of the bestselling book, Sail Away! A Guide to 0utfitting and Provisioning for Cruising, and are the producers/hosts of the sailing adventure TV series, Distant Shores, which airs in over 40 countries across Europe, Asia and South Africa on Travel Channel and in Canada on Canadian Learning Television. Their experiences on the Levant Cruise will be documented in season 4 of the Distant Shores TV and DVD series.	http://www.distantshores.ca
Wayward Wind	Eileen & Larry, US sailors. We moved aboard in 1994 and spent a couple of years in the Caribbean, Atlantic crossing, Scandinavian cruise (Denmark, Sweden and Norway). Then we completed a circumnavigation which started and ended in Gibraltar. We went back to Ireland and the UK with a trip through the Caldonien canal the second visit. We returned to the Med and have wintered in Barcelona and Kemer. Last summer we did the Black Sea Rally (Kayra)which was at a very fast pace. We are looking forward to a more leisurely Levante Basin cruise and meeting new friends.	The Wayward Wind Theme Song Use the Controls on Player below to start & stop the music.

Boat Name	Participants	Flag	LOA	Logo	Crew
Dakare	Dan, Karen and Joshua Sehnal	US	16.9
Escape Key	Fred and Jane Hoette	US	12.8
Equus	Stephen Lochner & Patricia Thompson	US	14.4
Ginny	Chris and Elaine Champ	UK	14.2
Kelearin	Jim and Joy Carey	US	13.7
Liljana	Liljana and Salah	US	15
Moonraker	Felix (Manny) and Barbara Reyes	US	13.4
Moose	Richard and Adrienne Snape	UK	12.49
Sea Swallow	Bill and Jacqueline Bennett	US	14.5
Soleil Sans Fin	Bill Cote and Jean Panepinto	UK	14.5
Two Step	Paul and Sheryl Shard	Canada	10
Wayward Wind	Larry and Eileen Murphy	US	13.6


Dakare	Escape Key	Equus

Ginny	Kelearin	Liljana

Moonraker	Moose	Sea Swallow

Soleil Sans Fin	Two Step	Wayward Wind