{"id":526,"date":"2012-11-10T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T21:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=526"},"modified":"2020-01-13T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T18:44:47","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chuck and Barb Shipley are formerly of Richmond Hill, GA &#8212; just south of Savannah.&nbsp; Chuck retired June 30, 2005 from his position as&nbsp;professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA, where he had taught since 1972.&nbsp;Barb retired from her position as a manager of software development at Southern Company in January 2004.&nbsp;&nbsp;While&nbsp;waiting for Chuck to &#8220;get free&#8221;, she became a licensed captain and has a 50 ton master&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_971\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/about-us\/xmas-walk-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-971\" data-attachment-id=\"971\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/about-us\/xmas-walk-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Xmas-walk-1.jpg?fit=757%2C650\" data-orig-size=\"757,650\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Xmas-walk-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;On a walk in Grenada, Christmas day, 2009&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Xmas-walk-1.jpg?fit=600%2C515\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Xmas-walk-1.jpg?fit=625%2C537\" class=\" wp-image-971 \" title=\"Xmas-walk-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Xmas-walk-1.jpg?resize=420%2C361\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Xmas-walk-1.jpg?resize=600%2C515 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Xmas-walk-1.jpg?resize=624%2C535 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Xmas-walk-1.jpg?w=757 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a walk in Grenada, Christmas day, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They sold their house and cars and and for some 15 years were living aboard their trawler and cruising where they would.<\/p>\n<p>They had boated in the Savannah area for over 20 years and had owned a 42&#8242; Krogen trawler for three years before upgrading to the 48&#8242; Krogen North Sea trawler.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer\/fall of 2019 they returned with their boat to the USA, where she was sold. &nbsp;They are now living aboard their 40&#8242; RV and cruising on land.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck and Barb can be contacted at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Telephone:<\/strong><br \/>\n1-912-572-2583 &nbsp; &nbsp;Barb<br \/>\n1-701-425-2276 &nbsp; &nbsp;Chuck<br \/>\n<strong>Address:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Chuck and Barb Shipley<br \/>\n411 Walnut Street #3216<br \/>\nGreen Cove Springs, FL 32043<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<br \/>\n<\/strong>tusentakk2@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chuck&#8217;s Published articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>&#8220;Post Holiday Thoughts Aboard a Krogen 48 North Sea&#8221;,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kadeykrogen.com\/news\/index.php?page=introduction&amp;story=76\">Click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Becoming Cruisers, Step by Step&#8221;,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Waypoints<\/span>, Summer 2006 (Newsletter of Kadey-Krogen Yachts)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kadeykrogen.com\/newsletters\/PDF\/2006_03.pdf\">Click here for PDF version<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Trawlering to the Caribbean&#8221;,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Blue Water Sailing<\/span>, October 2007, pp. 86-91.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;An Introduction to Stabilizers &#8212; Cruising on an Even Keel&#8221;,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Blue Water Sailing<\/span>, July 2008, pp. 70-73.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cruising The Offshore Islands of Venezuela&#8221;,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PassageMaker<\/span>, July\/August 2011, pp. 76-81.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Caribbean Reef Squid&#8221;,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, June 2012, pp. 40-42. &nbsp;<a title=\"Caribbean-reef-squid-facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allatsea\/Caribbean\/Caribbean-reef-squid-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Also available here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Blennies of Bonaire&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, September 2012, pp. 8,26-29. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allatsea.net\/caribbean\/blennies-of-bonaire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Also available here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Marooned in the Grenadines&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Waypoints (Krogen Newsletter)<\/span>, Fall 2012, pp. 9-11. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kadeykrogen.com\/newsletters\/PDF\/2012_04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Also available here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Venezuela&#8217;s Macareo River Is a Gunkholer&#8217;s Paradise&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PassageMaker<\/span>, July\/August 2013, pp. 56-59.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Asa Wright Nature Centre &#8211; The Beautiful World of Caribbean Birds&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, February 2014, pp. 52-54. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allatsea.net\/asa-wright-nature-centre-beautiful-world-caribbean-birds\/\">Also available here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Leatherback Turtles on the Coast of Trinidad&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, October 2014, pp. 68-71.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Razorfish &nbsp;of Bonaire&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, May 2015, pp. 48-50, 52.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Colorful Shrimp of Bonaire&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, March 2016, pp. 64-67.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Diving Adventures in the Caribbean&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PassageMaker<\/span>, September 2016, pp. 56-60.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why Diving on Scuba is Better Than Snorkeling&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, February 2017, pp. 46-53.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Underwater Photography 101&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, March 2017, pp. 32-35.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Published photographs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>Pelican photos for &#8220;The Brown Pelican&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Oct. 2008, p. 82.<\/li>\n<li>Brown Booby photo for &#8220;Why Is It Called a Booby?&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Apr. 2009, p. 31.<\/li>\n<li>Carnival photo for &#8220;Critical Mas:&nbsp; Old-Time Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago&#8221;, Article by Jo-Anne Nina Sewlal,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Caribbean Compass<\/span>, Feb. 2009, p.&nbsp;25<\/li>\n<li>Tropicbird photos for &#8220;Red-billed Tropicbirds&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, June, 2009, pp. 36-37.<\/li>\n<li>Royal tern photos for &#8220;Royalty in the Anchorage&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Aug. 2009, pp. 8, 29.<\/li>\n<li>Laughing gull photos for &#8220;Laughing Tattletales in the Anchorage&#8221;, by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Oct. 2009, pp. 28-29.<\/li>\n<li>Black Skimmer photos for &#8220;Black Barking Birds, Crepuscular Skimmers&#8221;, by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Jan. 2010, pp. 8, 38.<\/li>\n<li>Photos of hikers for &#8220;Monkey Paws and Waterfalls&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Caribbean Compass<\/span>, March 2010, pp. 4, 28.<\/li>\n<li>Red-Footed Booby photos for &#8220;A Noisy Night in Las Aves&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Oct. 2010, pp.42, 44.<\/li>\n<li>Bridled Tern photos for &#8220;One Good Tern Deserves Another&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Dec. 2010, pp. 10, 44.<\/li>\n<li>Photo of Devi swimming w\/ balloon on her back, &#8220;Letter of the Month&#8221;, Note by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Caribbean Compass<\/span>, Jan.2011, p.47.<\/li>\n<li>Brown Noddy photos for &#8220;A Niddle of Noddies&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Feb. 2011, pp. 10, 42.<\/li>\n<li>Photo of Barb reading from her Kindle for &#8220;I Love my Kindle&#8221;, Article by Devi Sharp,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea<\/span>, Feb. 2011, p. 44.<\/li>\n<li>Five photos of &#8220;Carib Beer Great Race 2012&#8221; motorboat race, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Boca<\/span>, Oct\/Nov 2012, p. 12.<\/li>\n<li>Photo of yellowtail hamlet, used by&nbsp;Dr Ross Robertson,&nbsp;Staff Scientist,&nbsp;Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,&nbsp;in an article on mimicry in reef fishes in the online scientific journal PLOS 1. The article can be read at&nbsp;http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054939<\/li>\n<li>Two of the photos for &#8220;Staying Shipshape&#8221;, Article about exercise onboard by Devi Sharp, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All At Sea,<\/span>April 2013, pp. 26-29.<\/li>\n<li>Cover photo (of Tusen Takk II, taken at El Oculto, Venezuela) for Passage Maker magazine, Sept. 2014. &nbsp;Also, a photo of TT2 taken at La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, same issue, p. 76.\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck and Barb Shipley are formerly of Richmond Hill, GA &#8212; just south of Savannah.&nbsp; Chuck retired June 30, 2005 from his position as&nbsp;professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA, where he had taught since 1972.&nbsp;Barb retired from her position as a manager of software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Tyag-8u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12790,"href":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526\/revisions\/12790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}