COUNCIL CANDIDATES
Bill Sterling:
I was in the Coast Guard in the early '70s in the Merchant Marine Technical Branch. I reviewed all the mechanical plans for US flag vessels under construction in the Great Lakes area. Upon my discharge, I took a job as a civilian with the Coast Guard, in the Small Boat Technical Branch. My job was to visit all the boat builders and engine manufacturers in the Great Lakes area and help them implement the new Federal regulations concerning flotation, electrical, and mechanical systems for their boats.
I then came home to New England and worked for the Air Force in various positions in their Facility Engineering offices on two bases, until my retirement in 2010. I am now a volunteer in the Cape Cod Maritime Museum's boat shop, where we run boat building classes for high school and middle school kids, work on repairing boats of historical significance to the cape area, and have started a rowing program.
We started the Cape Cod Chapter in 2013 and have now grown to 30 members. I served on the TSCA Council from June 2019 until June 2022.
I have built and maintained several wooden boats over the years and get out rowing, sailing, and paddling whenever I can.
John Kohnen:
I was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon (1950). After a little roaming in my 20s, I'm back living in the same neighborhood I grew up in. I worked as a car and motorcycle mechanic, in construction and remodeling, as an electrician's helper, and finally as a bookkeeper. After a little messing about in my youth I suppressed my interest in boating until middle age. I've built a few little boats, but I'm better at buying boats from friends who like to build boats more than they like to use them. While I own a couple of small sailboats and I am a sailor at heart, I also own a Redwing 18 low-powered cruising motorboat. I started the Western Oregon Messabouts (Coots) boating group 20+ years ago and serve as president of the Oregon Coots Chapter of the TSCA.
Scott Anderson:
I have been a member at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) for several years and TSCA for the last 2 years. I have been sailing on small craft since the late ‘70s with my uncle and had many a wonderful day on Lake Erie in his 12’ Catboat and later his C&C Sailboat. He introduced me to the TSCA at my first Mid-Atlantic Festival in 2015, and I have been hooked ever since. Since the early 2000s, I mostly sailed on larger boats and assisted in the galley in making a variety of delicious offerings on the water.
I’m not affiliated with a chapter and would enjoy working on ideas to support members-at-large in order to help them feel more connected. I currently take semi-professional images during every visit to CBMM and other on the water venues. I especially love to photograph the TSCA members and guests out on every sort of small craft during events at CBMM. I’d like to start a page off the TSCA members page devoted to independent individuals that can be used for recreation, for identification of styles and designs of small craft, and for offering an outlet for the fantastic workmanship and designs that are built from the ground up.