~~ Meet the Members of the Team ~~

Gale Browning, Co-Skipper Gale Browning lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her partner, Peter Hartoft, and her three teenaged sons. She is Vice-President of Hartoft Marine Survey, Ltd., and works full time as a marine surveyor when she is not racing or training for the 2006 Around Alone Race, a solo ocean race around the world. In 2001, Gale was the only American to participate in the Mini-Transat Race, a French-dominated solo ocean race on 21' high performance sailboats from France to Brazil. Looking to continue her training for the Around Alone race, pay off some debts from the Mini-Transat campaign, and fulfill some family obligations, Gale chose to compete in the highly competitive arena of long distance beach cat racing. Over the 2003 winter months, Gale was on a huge learning curve sailing on her 18' Bimare Javelin 2 high performance beach cat at the Jav camp in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, training with Randy Smyth, Richard Feeney, Jason Sneed, Brian Lambert, Jamie Livingston, Mark Murray and Kevin Smith.

Carl Roberts, Co-Skipper Carl Roberts owns Carl Roberts Design, involved with residential architecture with some smaller commercial projects, specializing in waterfront home design. Carl lives in Brighton, Michigan, with his wife and four children—Makailey, Kyle, Colin and James, and stays active in the winter months playing hockey and other winter sports. Carl loves to sail and really enjoys the challenges of long distance high speed beach cat racing. He has competed in the Worrell 1000 beach cat race six times finishing as high as 4th place against a top field of world class and Olympic medalists that yearly race in similar events.

David Wallace Shore, Crew/Alternate Sailor David Wallace is a caretaker and boat captain for High Point Corporation on Cumberland Island, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. He has been racing Nacra and Prindle beach cats since 1989 beginning with local club racing with his father, Bill Wallace. In 2000, David was ground crew and back-up sailor for Team Entegra/Tybee Island Sailing Team and sailed one leg of the Worrell 1000 with Jim Stone. David also sailed in the Heineken 2000 with Rick Bliss from New England Catamarans and finished with the fastest time around the Island of St. Martin with a 3rd place in the regatta. In 2001, David took 1st place overall in the Saint Simons Surf Sailors race series and was the ground crew and backup sailor for Team Sail for Sight, Carl Roberts and Dave Lennard-4th place finishers. David sailed in the 2nd and 3rd legs of the 2001 Worrell 1000 with Rod Waterhouse, who finished in 2nd place for the regatta.

Bill Wallace, Team Manager-Shore Crew Bill Wallace is a Process Control Engineer for Georgia Pacific and he lives in St. Simons Island, Georgia. Bill started sailing cats in 1978 and has been sailing Nacras since 1982 including the 5.2, 5.8, and the 6.0 models. He has raced in the Mug race (Palatka to Jacksonville, Florida) several times, Sanford, Curacao, Tradewinds, Steeplechase and the Worrell 1000. He was with Jim Stone with Team Entegra in the 2000 Worrell. In 1999, he was part of the Worrell 1000 shore crew for Team Michigan and in 1998 he was the manager for Carl Roberts’s Worrell 1000 team. Bill has a small plane and flies search and rescue for the Civil Air Patrol. He also flew with the USCG Auxiliary as security patrol for the sailing events in the Olympics held in Savannah, Georgia. Bill has been a ham radio operator since 1960 and carries a diver’s card.

Diana Prentice Diana Prentice, freelance writer, lives aboard and sails fulltime on a Tayana-37, cruising the East Coast and Bahamas with husband Randy since 1996. Diana's essays of life afloat and reports of boating destinations are regularly seen in Chesapeake Bay Magazine. In stark contrast to the laid-back lifestyle, her penchant for faster-paced sailing undertakings has led to writing articles on top women sailors, the Worrell-1000 (2000), EDS Atlantic Challenge and Ellen MacArthur (2001),and the MiniTransat and Gale Browning (2002). Diana, however, competes only among those holding pens, not mainsheets, earning a silver medal in 2002’s annual Boating Writers International contest announced earlier this year. Besides Chesapeake Bay Magazine, her work also appears in Sailing, Living Aboard, and more than a dozen other publications.