VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT:  LEE AND ANN FAIRCHILD 

Boat name and type:  We may be sailors, but we don’t own a boat.  As well as sailing for Salty Dawg in both the Caribbean and Homeward Bound rallies the past three years, Lee regularly races on Chesapeake Bay through Hampton Yacht Club.  There are always captains looking for crew.  Ann is much more a fair weather sailor.

 Home port:  We live in Poquoson, Virginia, a small town in the Hampton, Virginia, area.

 Where are you now?:  We are home for the moment, but we like to spend our time traveling.  

 Years volunteering for the Dawgs:  We’ve been with the Salty Dawgs for three years.

How do you volunteer?:  We are the Hampton Transportation Coordinators for the Caribbean rally.  Lee mainly does the work ahead of time, creating schedules for the Scuttle Bus supplied by Hampton City.  Ann is the concierge, making sure people get to where they need to go that busy week.  If the bus isn’t available, she’s been known to throw people into her car.

Sailing plans for the next year:  Our sailing plans include a larger boat than usual.  We’re traveling from Tokyo to Vancouver in the spring on a Viking repositioning cruise.  That’s Ann’s preferred ocean travel.  Lee will be racing, and he hopes to crew for Salty Dawgers again.

Other interests:  Having been retired for a few years, travel is important to us.  We spent three weeks traveling by trains, planes, and automobiles out West last year, visiting family and really getting to experience the Western U.S.  When we’re home, Lee is usually on the water most weekends, as the area has sailing close to year-round.  Ann volunteers as a docent and researcher at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia.  But, Ann’s true passion is genealogy.  She has traced her family (and anybody else’s who’s interested) back several generations, but her focus is on the stories behind the statistics.