Jay K. Davis Skipper - 1965

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jay K. & Miri B. Davis

 

Bio:

Since SPINAX.. Jay K. Davis, Commanding Officer, 1964-1966

After leaving SPINAX, I was assigned to the Defense Language Institute, Washington, D.C. for a total immersion (appropriate for a submariner) course in Turkish. Upon completion, my family and I went to Ankara, Turkey as a NATO representative and submarine advisor to the Turkish Naval Headquarters for three years. This was followed by tours in Washington with SSPO for ballistic missile submarine planning and then ComASW before retiring as a Commander in 1972.I spent the next twelve years with first EG&G and then Singer-Librascope in Washington in submarine related projects and systems (and sailing on the Chesapeake and in the Atlantic) before retiring again in 1984.

Miri B. and I then cruised the entire East Coast to and from Nova Scotia to the Dry Tortugas and Florida west coast in our 42' ketch MALGRE' TOUT before in 1986 sailing to Bermuda for the sixth time and on across the Atlantic to the Azores, on to Portugal and into the straits of Gibraltar  to spend the next five years in the Mediterranean. We returned to Malta where I had been assigned NATO staff duty 30 years before, and we spent two more years exploring the coasts of Turkey, this time anchoring in beautiful and secluded coves where as a family we had camped with our children 20 years earlier. The language capability again came in handy and we were again welcomed as family. The islands of Greece, Yugoslavia and Cyprus and the coasts of Italy, France and Spain were also explored, adding to the magic variety of cultures, people and language. Our beloved MALGRE' TOUT ("In Spite of Everything!") was sold in Mallorca, Spain in late 1990 and my super-crew Miri B. and I anchored on the Lake Washington shore in Kirkland, Washington, near Seattle.

I earned my USCG Master certificate and my Davis Marine Services company instructed new boat owners in "school of the boat" and how to handle, and cruise in, their yachts. This has resulted in the now nearly full time and delightful task of consulting on the purchase , commissioning and 2006 delivery, as designated Captain, of a 76 foot diesel-electric powered Nordhavn long-range mega-yacht.  

Mb and I, now "crewing together" for 54 years, are exploring the beautiful waters of Puget Sound, Canadian and San Juan Islands and Northwest Passage in our 40' twin-screw power-cruiser HARMONY. She flies the Dolphins with great pride.

Jay.K Davis