The Crew
The crew of Schooner Charley hails from the shores of Lake Superior. Liv’s family owned a small business in Grand Marais, so she grew up helping her dad sell t-shirts and running around the Superior National Forest. She graduated from UW Madison and then served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic for two years before finding her way back to Northern Minnesota. She loves boats, but prefers diving underwater with a SCUBA set-up.
Matt grew up in Duluth. After graduating East High School, he majored in Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College. During the summers he worked the waterfront and taught sailing at Camp Courage North which sparked a sailing career ranging from working as an onboard educator on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater in New York to The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle. After a two year Peace Corps stint landlocked in rural Paraguay, he returned to the North Shore. For the past seven years he has worked at North House Folk School, managing the schooner Hjordis and sailing his own 29’ Columbia to remote corners of the Big Lake.
Liv and Matt split their time between the Duluth Superior Harbor and their home on the Gunflint Trail just north of Grand Marais. They have a dog, Louise who will occasionally help out on deck.