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Jim has been a life-long sailor since his family bought a Sunfish in the early 1960s and sailed on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts. He was hooked, as they say. His first boat was a 14.2 Capri Sloop that he, his wife, Lynne, and son, Scott, sailed in the intracoastal waterway in North Carolina for several years.
Jim completed the ASA sailing classes of Coastal Cruising and Bareboat Chartering through the Waterways Sailing School in Wilmington, NC, and has chartered sailboats in North Carolina, Florida and the Virgin Islands.
Jim has been a member of the Finger Lakes Chapter since 2007. He is a current member of the Finger Lakes Yacht Club and owns Brewster, a 1995 Hunter 336. He became the Squadron Education Officer in 2017 after serving as its ASEO for several years. In 2019 he became the Squadron Commander, with a focus on Boating Education, Safety, and Community Service. Jim has completed the USPS courses, seminars and Boat Operator Certification skills tests for Senior Navigator and Inland Navigator.
In the past several years, taking advantage of the skills built on the water, Jim and Lynne have chartered monohull and catamaran sailboats in Florida on the east and west coasts. Jim was also a crew member on S/V Tomfoolery in the Sam Wetherill Ocean Race in 2021.
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Jeff Mack is a husband and father, artist, resident glassmaker, and manager of hot glass programs at the Corning Museum of Glass. Jeff is also a novice sailor and aspiring navigator. He owns a 1973 Sabre 28 sloop (kept at Village Marina, sailed on Seneca Lake) and, additionally, a trailerable 15-foot Menger catboat (kept in his garage, sailed where adventure calls). He has crewed on an e-scow, racing a season with the Keuka Yacht Club fleet, and now enjoys skippering his own Sabre “Tina” crewed by friends and family with the Finger Lakes Yacht Club. Jeff’s seamanship has benefited greatly from programs and courses offered by the Sail and Power Squadron, as well as from guidance, local knowledge, and wisdom shared by its many members and friends at Seneca Harbor.
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Jim started sailing in 2007 on beautiful Seneca Lake with his wife Susan. They learned a lot that first summer, most importantly how to reef early! Never having been seriously involved with boats led Jim and Sue to conclude they needed to learn and the Power Squadron provided that education along with all of the great boating friends they have made in Watkins Glen. Jim and Sue are both power and sail boat owners and enjoy cruising. They have rented a boat in San Diego and managed to motor it out of the bay and into the Pacific Ocean and back safely.
Jim enjoys taking the classes and giving back as an instructor.
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The Executive Officer position is currently open. Please contact our Commander, Phil Cherry, for more information.
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Maggie Martin has been sailing with her husband, John Chesebrough, for about 20 years, starting on a 22-foot NorthStar on Cayuga Lake, to keep the kids out of trouble on weekends. (It worked!) She is an artist and often does paintings of sailboats. Until recently, they spent winters on their Cheoy Lee in Florida. Among their adventures have been trips to the Dry Tortugas and Cuba (and back). Five boats later, they now keep their 30-foot Hunter, Plein Air, in Watkins Glen Village Marina on Seneca Lake.