The Crew of the Odysseus
	Captain: Jack Kelman Age: 39 From: Western Australia Jacks interests are yacht racing, snow skiing, photography and cinematography. Jack began skippering yachts at the young age of nine, with the West Australian Pelican class training yacht.  He achieved excellence winning the annual top championship for the class at age fifteen in 1983. Secondary school achievements led to a bias toward art and design, which progressed to a college certificate in this area. Not wanting to be hemmed into the field at such a young age Jack left Western Australia to gain a bigger picture of the world.  A year working on the mines in Australia 's crocodile country “The Northern Territory” set the grounds for an understanding of heavy industrial equipment with all it's individual systems. A casual position with a sailing school in the city of Darwin lead to an in depth study of aerodynamics and a rapidly increasing ability on the race coarse. Participation in the “ Darwin to Ambon International Yacht Race” to Indonesia was Jack's first step abroad and led to a victory in the cruising division on Jack's family yacht Wandjina in 1997. With an increasing taste for life on the ocean Jack achieved commercial master status in Darwin , then joined the largest Australian company “Prosail Whitsunday” operating three day charters for the backpacker market in the Whitsunday Islands of Queensland . Here the sailing was six days a week, sails up and down twice a day and operating through both summer and winter seasons. Jack enjoyed sailing such yachts as Gretel , Australia 's first Americas Cup challenger, Matador, the 1991 maxi world champion designed by NASA and The Card, the Swedish challenger in the early 1990's Whitbread Race. After three years with Prosail Jack gained enough experience to enter the international arena of yachting and soon was positioned as first officer on the 96ft “Alize” in the port of Mallorca in Spain .  Over the following two and a half years a solid grounding of the industry was established and the Mediterranean was traversed with several trips to Greece and Sardinia . In 2004 Jack holidayed in South Africa for several months then returned to Australia to complete a voyage in his family yacht across the top of Australia and down the length of the Great Barrier Reef . Jack became captain of Odysseus in January 2005 at the Island of St Martin and has enjoyed running luxury charters on the yacht throughout the entire Caribbean and New England .
	Chef: Jason Avakian Jason was born and raised in Santa Barbara,Ca.He graduated from the California Culinary Academy,San Francisco in 1997.After completing his externship at Bradley Ogdon's”One Market” and honing his skills at the Clement St.Bar & Grill,it was time to head to the Virgin Islands to begin his cooking career on charter yachts. Since December of 1998 Chef Jason been pleasing guests and owners of yachts 75' to 160 ‘, completing over 75 weeks of charters and covering over 50,000 miles of ocean including 3 transatlantic crossings, the Mediterranean, US East and West Coast, (via Panama canal )
	Deckhand: Tim Cooper Age: 20 From: Western Australia Tim's hobbies & interests are surfing, fishing, sailing, and music. Tim has followed in his father's footsteps becoming a great surfer and previously lived close to the beach in Mooloolaba QLD. After finishing secondary school his interests in the marine environment took him professional fishing on one of the east coast's long lining vessels that would often stay at sea for a month at a time and travel as far as the north coast of New Zealand. Tim joined Odysseus in August 2006 and has since learned new and various skills to add to the wealth of experience gained in the professional fishing industry.  He has taken to and really enjoys the sailing experience.