The Massachusetts Maritime Academy has employed Tiffany Krihwan as the brand new captain of the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey, the renovated tall ship is predicted to reach on the Cape Cod campus this fall.
Captain Krihwan joins the Mass Maritime workers from Discovery World in Milwaukee, the place she was director of marine operations since 2014 and senior captain of the Denis Sullivan, a Nineteenth-century Nice Lakes schooner, since 2008.
“We’re including a confirmed chief to our ranks, and I’m wanting ahead to seeing Captain Krihwan on the helm of the Ernestina-Morrissey,” stated Rear Admiral Francis X. McDonald, president of the academy. “We’re excited to have a captain of Tiffany’s crusing expertise, management expertise and fervour for our program aboard.”
An Erie, Pennsylvania, native, Capt. Krihwan took up crusing FJs on the age of 10 on the Erie Yacht Membership. She started crusing tall ships in 1997 when she was appointed chief mate of the Appledore IV. Different management positions embody captain of the Boston-based schooner Roseway, chief mate of the Satisfaction of Baltimore II, reduction captain of the Los Angeles-based brigantine Exy Johnson and captain of the tall ship Unicorn.
“It’s an honor to be becoming a member of MMA and captaining the Ernestina-Morrissey. It’s laborious to beat the sweetness and grandeur of tall ships,” Capt. Krihwan stated.
Drawn to the place on the academy by the Ernestina-Morrissey’s historical past and pedigree, Capt. Krihwan is wanting ahead to guiding the ship and her crew on the waters off Cape Cod. “I’ve sailed on a number of Grand Banks fishing schooners, the Lettie G. Howard and Roseway, over time and love the best way they sail so effortlessly. They’re superb crusing vessels,” she stated.
With the Ernestina-Morrissey, Capt. Krihwan is raring to begin a sail coaching program from the bottom up and assist combine a tall ship into the academy’s curriculum. “That is such a particular alternative not just for me, however for the cadets,” she stated. “Working with these historic vessels helps people grow to be much better sailors. You actually need to look at the basic ideas of crusing.”
She additionally can have an vital position in instructing the cadets on the academy and mentoring them to grow to be leaders. In keeping with Capt. Krihwan, her management type is to guide by instance and believes a captain is barely nearly as good as her crew. Her hope is to not solely share her love of tall ships with the cadets but in addition cross alongside expertise which are vital on sea and land.
“Certainly one of my favourite elements of crusing a tall ship is seeing the crew and college students personally develop from the expertise and witness their confidence in themselves develop throughout their time aboard the ship,” Capt. Krihwan stated. “My hope is that they take the expertise with them and apply the abilities and attributes discovered at sea to their shore life.”
Capt. Krihwan shall be relocating to the Cape Cod space along with her 11-year-old daughter. In her spare time, she plans to proceed the restoration of the “Mahanna,” her picket 30-foot Tahiti Ketch.
The Ernestina-Morrissey is a Gloucester fishing schooner initially constructed with white oak and yellow pine and launched in 1894. It’s present process a historic renovation at Bristol Marine Shipyard in Sales space Bay Harbor, Maine, and can arrive at MMA within the fall of 2021. Mass Maritime will focus the efforts of the Ernestina-Morrissey in three areas: sail-training and management coaching for cadets, Ok-12 STEM programming and group outreach. The Ernestina-Morrissey’s historical past consists of touring inside 600 miles of the Arctic Circle as an explorer ship, fishing for cod within the Atlantic and finally changing into a Cape Verde packet ship. In 1976, the Ernestina-Morrissey grew to become a bicentennial reward to the USA from the folks of the Cape Verde Islands.
