Speaker Biographies
Captain Jayne Durden 
Captain Jayne Durden holds a USCG 25-ton Master. She’s been sailing since she was a kid in Australia. Settling in the Chesapeake, she bought her Beneteau 331, Happy Place, just as the pandemic hit. Jayne cruises and races on Happy Place from Herrington Harbour North where she is the current Commodore of Herrington Harbour Sailing Association, and also runs the Women Underway program. This year she’s been racing on a J/99, Bay Retriever.
Highlights from the last few years include:
When she’s not sailing, Jayne is a sailmaker for Ullman Sails and does some trademark and brand protection work on the side. Visit www.sailinghappyplace.com to learn more and contact Jayne. (photo by Kristin Rutkowski)
Captain Dave Tabor 
Captain Dave Tabor has been sailing for fifty years. As a teenager, he learned to sail while vacationing in Maine, and later sailed Lasers and FJs while in college. After college, he got a boatyard job and bought his first boat, a Hampton One-Design, which he completely restored before buying a Laser. Frostbite Laser sailing and crewing for one designs were fit in between work and family time.
Doing deliveries to/from the Caribbean led to a couple of Bermuda races and eventually buying Dianthus, a Canadian Sailcraft Merlin (CS36M) which he sailed in Wednesday night races with his wife Carol and many doublehanded bay races. In 2015 he raced Dianthus in the Bermuda 1-2: singlehanded to Bermuda and doublehanded back to Newport, doing it again in 2017 and 2023, with his wife as his partner in the “2.” With these races, combined with races from Marion, Newport and Annapolis, Dave has done 12 races to Bermuda as well as several deliveries.
After his retirement as an Air Traffic Controller in 2017, friends invited Dave and Carol to New Zealand to sail their Oyster 54 and recommended them as crew for another Oyster 54 in the Oyster World Rally. They sailed from NZ to Vanuatu, Australia, and Indonesia. Then they swapped boats to an Oyster 66, and crossed the Indian Ocean to Cape Town, South Africa, totaling ten months living on boats.
Dave holds a 100-ton Near Coastal Master and has worked as an instructor and delivery captain. At last count, he has logged over 40,000 miles offshore, visited 19 countries, and sailed over 75 different boat designs. Last fall, Dave and Carol bought a J42 and put their 36M Dianthus on the market
Captain Lynn McClaskey 
Captain Lynn McClaskey learned to sail in Oklahoma at the age of 5 on an 18’ centerboard Thistle and later bought a Sunfish with her brother. Lynn graduated from Oklahoma State University as a mathematics major and earned her first job with the US Army before moving to Washington D.C. to work for a couple of government agencies. For her thirtieth birthday, Lynn treated herself to a C&C 27 sailboat, and then twenty years later she purchased her current boat Cimarron, a J110 36’ racing sailboat. She competes regularly in several Annapolis-based races, including Wednesday night races and weekend CBRYA races. She has participated multiple times in several offshore races, including Annapolis to Bermuda, Annapolis to Newport, and Newport to Bermuda. As a member of the Herrington Harbor Sailing Association, she won the Storm TrySail Club Team Trophy for best-combined finish to Bermuda in 2022. She is delighted that her daughter Katie joined as crew in 2022.
Lynn retired from her government job three years ago. She presently volunteers with the Navy, coaching kids as well as helping with the Immigrant Teen Project and Sail Beyond Cancer. She holds several sailing certifications and recently became a US Sailing Judge. (photo by Kristin Rutkowski)
| Event Date | 09-23-2024 6:45 pm |
| Event End Date | 09-23-2024 8:30 pm |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Individual Price | Free |
| Location | Annapolis Elks Lodge |
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