Peter Brennan

Pete Brennan was introduced to sailing on an eleven-foot Styrofoam boat about 1970 when his dad sent in the requisite number of carton tops from Kool cigarettes. (The sail was emblazoned with the Kool cigarettes logo.) He completed the American Sailing Association Basic Keelboat Sailing course in 1981 at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

After graduating college, he moved to Miami to work as a high school teacher, and bought a 22’ sailboat, which he sailed for a couple of years on weekends in Biscayne Bay, and all summer long in the Florida Keys. Eventually life brought him to Long Island, New York, where, after a ten-year hiatus from sailing, he bought an old 30’ Pearson and sailed Long Island Sound, Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard, the East River, New York Harbor, and the Atlantic Ocean.

His first taste of Tall Ship sailing came in 2000, when he served as volunteer crew on the Canadian schooner Mist of Avalon on a voyage from Charleston South Carolina to Newport Rhode Island. Since then he has sailed on the Irish Tall Ship Asgard II, and the Dutch ship Thalassa. After selling his own boat when his children reached college age, he has continued to serve as crew on five races from St. Petersburg Florida to Isla Mujeres Mexico, one race to Havana Cuba, and a couple of Round Ireland races.

He now lives in Palm Harbor Florida with Susan his wife and Bayley the Wonder Dog. They have two children and five grandchildren.