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Hands
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about TL
Tom "TL"
Linskey has 30 years of writing, editing, and photography
experience in marine publications in the U.S., U.K., Australia,
New Zealand, and Japan. Most recently TL has been principal
of his own marketing company, Deepsea Media, which provided
marketing, publicity, graphic design, web design and copywriting
services to marine companies. TL is now putting his writing,
photography, and design skills to work for Hands Across the
Sea's charitable purposes.
TL also built his own bluewater cruising boat, a 28-foot Bristol
Channel Cutter named freelance, and sailed it with
his wife, Harriet, 17,000 miles across the Pacific to French
Polynesia, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Tom has
been a popular speaker at boat shows dispensing advice (?!)
on such topics a: "How to go Cruising and Stay Married."
An accomplished racing sailor, TL's book, Race Winning
Strategies: Smart Lessons With Deep Dakron, is a humorous
how-to about sailboat racing that continues to be popular
with sailing clubs and racers. TL was a three-time world champion
in the Olympic 470 class (1977, 1978, and 1980) and a member
of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Yachting team. click
to e-mail TL
about Harriet
Harriet Linskey is an excellent
communicator, presenter, and writer, and has the ability to
bring people together to work toward a common goal. Harriet
will be using her communication, teaching, and leadership
skills for Hands Across the Sea's charitable activities. Harriet
has a B. A. from Yale and is also a trained secondary education
teacher with five years of experience teaching English, Journalism,
and Art History in New Zealand. Harriet also has 18 years
experience in marketing services business development working
with Fortune 1000 clients. She is accomplished executive leading
diverse teams to propose and deliver solutions to meet clients'
marketing needs.
Harriet began racing and cruising sailboats at an early age,
and cruised with TL across the Pacific in freelance,
their 28-foot cutter. She has been a speaker at the "Suddenly
Alone" seminars designed to help the less-experienced
sailing crewmembers handle emergency situations. click
to e-mail Harriet
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about the boat... |
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Hands
Across the Sea, a Dolphin 460, is our ocean-crossing vehicle
for delivering charitable assistance. Built by Dolphin
Catamarans and sold by The
Multihull Company, the boat is ideal for transporting
supplies and serving as a base from which volunteer professionals
can carry out their work ashore. The boat's fast ocean-crossing
capabilities, coupled with a large cargo-carrying capacity,
helps us get supplies to remote places. The radio and satcom
equipment onboard Hands will allow us to help keep
volunteer professionals in touch with "home" while
they are working Hands-on. Dolphin Catamarans has made a number
of sailhandling and interior layout modifications so that
the boat will better serve Hands Across the Sea's purposes.
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join
the crew! |
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Hands
Across the Sea brings supplies and volunteer professionals in
the healthcare, medical, and enviromental fields to remote communitites.
By joining the Hands crew you can make a real difference in
our efforts. Here's three ways you can become a member of the
Hands crew:
in-kind donations
Hands Across the Sea needs donations
of school materials (textbooks, reference books, writing supplies,
calculators) and basic medical supplies (from first-aid to anitbiotics
and dressings). Please contact Hands
to arrange a donation.
working Hands-on
If you are a professional or
student from the educational, medical, or environmental fields
we may be able to host you onboard our boat so that you can
lend a hand in remote areas. The first step is to contact
Hands.
network with Hands
If you have a project in which
Hands can help, contact us.
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