Lynn Danaher
Born in Portland, Oregon, raised on the Columbia River. She has spent her life around the marine environment, self taught and educated in the field. Lynn spent 23 years living in Alaska. During that time she homesteaded in the bush for 5 years and was a commercial fisherman for 14 years. During her years spent commercial fishing she explored the coastline from Bristol Bay to Prince William Sound, Canada to Seattle. She has always remained active in local politics and environmental issues. She worked on the front lines during the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and participated in an archeological expedition along the Alaska Peninsula. Her fascination of Polynesian culture led her to Hawaii in the 60’s where she attended the University of Hawaii. She has a special interest in the impact of introduced cultures and the seekers of the mythical Polynesian utopia. After leaving Alaska she started a whale watch company in the San Juan’s Islands of Washington State. She is a USCG Licensed Master, Dive Master, member of the Explorers Club and Founding Member of the Pacific Islands Research Institute. She recently completed an archaeological expedition on Raivavae, Austral Islands, in the remotest part of French Polynesia. She has traveled extensively, has been to all 7 continents and worked aboard expedition ships since 2001. She presently is in the process of creating a sustainable community in downtown Friday Harbor, WA. She also splits her time between the San Juan Islands of Washington State and Kauai, Hawaii.
Leader of the 1973 Mt. Kenya Ecosystem Expedition with the University of Calif.
1977 Leader of the First Ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Foraker, Alaska (17,420’)
Robert S. CARTER Bob Carter, a noted cruising sailor and traveler, died at his home peacefully on September 17, 2006. He was nearly a month past his 91st birthday. Until his early retirement, Bob worked in New York and Chicago as a marine insurance underwriter with The Atlantic Mutual. General of America Insurance (now Safeco) brought him to Seattle in 1951 to set up and head its then new marine insurance division. For many years Bob and his wife, Cynthia, cruised in their 44 ft ketch, the CYNTHIA R, primarily in the Mediterranean and Europe. Their extensive explorations on the southern coast of Turkey led to their discovery of the ruins a substantial ancient seaport, by then partly submerged. Based on this and other archeological finds, Bob became deeply involved both with the American Institute of Archeology and the history department at the University of Washington. After Bob and Cynthia made their return crossing of the Atlantic in 1980, they sailed for many summers on the coasts of Maine, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Bob circumnavigated the North Atlantic, including Cape Verde and the Salvage Islands, in 1991. In 1992 he sailed from Venezuela to Florida and then shipped the boat to Seattle. Bob served as president of the Seattle area Harvard Club and chaired the visiting committee of the history department of the University of Washington. He held offices in the Cruising Club of America and belonged to the Explorers Club and the Ocean Cruising Club. He participated actively in both the Seattle and Corinthian yacht clubs for half a century. Bob described his sailing adventures in his book, SAIL FAR AWAY (1978). In the summer of 2005 he completed and published an English translation of a World War I diary, TAGEBUCH IM KRIEGE, by the German physician and poet, Hans Carossa. He published many articles and essays in a variety of magazines and journals throughout his adult life. He is survived by Cynthia Root Carter, his wife of 68 years, their two children, Lief Carter of Manitou Springs, CO, and Delight Carter Willing of Bainbridge Island, by their grandchildren, Stephen of Brooklyn, NY, Robert of Austin TX, and Laura of Athens, GA, and by their great-granddaughter, Plummy Jean Carter, also of Brooklyn. A private memorial celebration is being planned for later in the year.