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Captain Rick |
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#305, 2560 62nd Ave N |
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St Petersburg, FL
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Toll Free: 888-459-5992 |
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Phone: 727-459-5992 |
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Fax: 727-527-8287 |
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In the mid-1980’s, Captain Rick Rhodes moved onto a sailboat to
live aboard. Soon, he was extensively sailing the Chesapeake Bay
and Potomac River. During the 1990’s, he twice sailed his
33-footer to Central America. He split his liveaboard time with
another boat –a 28-foot powerboat in Washington DC. In the 2000’s, after
serving as a Peace Corps Volunteers in Ecuador, Captain Rick
moved aboard a 25-foot pocket trawler to continue guidebook
researching and writing –exploring from Lake Michigan to the
Gulf of Mexico, Florida’s Gulf Coast, and the entire length of
the Ohio River along with its many tributaries. Captain Rhodes has researched and written
eight guidebooks.
Wherever he’s been, he has engrossed himself in local history,
and has a passion to share this with readers. |
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Rick grew up in
Washington DC and the Midwest. He has a degree from
West Virginia University and graduate degree from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute. Captain Rhodes has twice served as an
instructor –in the late 1970’s, with the US Army, at the Corps
of Engineer School; and in the late 1980’s, with the Annapolis
Sailing School. He is well-traveled in the Americas, and can
speak a bit of Spanish. His 16 years of federal service was
highlighted by contributions to the NAFTA. Besides boating to
various regions, in the 1970’s, he hiked the Appalachian Trail,
and soon after, motorcycled throughout all 48 contiguous states,
Canada and Mexico. |
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trailblazing, and has often found himself to be one of the first
in an area that would later be heavily treaded. In St.
Petersburg Florida, Rick is an active member of the local YMCA,
the Bay Area Professional Writer’s Guild, and Toastmasters. |
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