KIM BRENDEN-PRICE moved to Florida five years ago for work and joined the Safety Harbor Boat Club two years later and has bren actively involved with the race committe and taking on the role of Scribe and newsletter editor.

Shortly after joining the club, Kim became a member of the race committee. She grew up sailing small sailboats on upstate New York and Vermont area lakes growing up and has been an active sailor since moving to Florida crewing on boats for both racing and cruising and recently became a sailboat owner herself.

RON CAREW, in 1986 moved to Florida for his work opportunity. He earned a BS in Marketing and an MBA. Currently his hobbies are golfing, bike riding, boating, and walking. Like all boaters, Ron has many stories. He has had Bayliners for water-sking, Center Console fishing boats and now has a 24 ft. Pontoon boat that seats 10.

Ron's military experience included spending 14 years in the Army National Guard and two years Army active duty, with one of those years overseas in Vietnam with an Artillery Unit.

Last year Ron went on a Mission Trip to Alaska, vacationed in Saint Maarten, Snowmobiled in Maine, went skiing at Keystone, CO, went Golfing in Phoenix, AZ and enjoyed driving an ATV in Moab and Sedona, visited National Parks Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, and went snorkeling in the Dry Tortugas off the Florida Keys.

LINDA MAKSEL was born in New York. In 1992 she moved to Florida because her husband's parents were living here and their health was failing. Linda got her Bachelor's Degree from Middlesex College in New Jersey. Before retiring, she raised her family of two kids and later worked at Pet Mart Supermarket as a Manager.

While growing up, Linda's grandparents lived on the water and had a boat. She also bought a little boat for her sister and herself. It was fun. Linda spent a lot of time there and loved the water. She also did a lot of fishing and crabbing. Their house was on Jamaica Bay at the tail end of the Rockaways on a small island called Meadowmere Park.

Linda attended our Club's recent Annual Change of Watch Party and was introduced to the Safety Harbor Boat Club by Marion Ruuge-Aronson, our prior SHBC Scribe.

Mark Lewalski has been sailing on and off for about 25 years. As a young teenager living in Turkey, he participated in a tough Sunfish summer camp. He got back into sailing by crewing on his boss' 48-foot Morgan ketch which eventually led him and his wife to purchase a 1996 Catalina 250 water ballast sloop. Sadly, that boat has sailed on to The Great Ocean in the Sky.

He sometimes crews on other people's boats and likes the change of setups and sailing styles. Mark has been a Safety Harbor Boat Club member for most of the 26 years he has lived here.