About Jim

I am the owner/Captain and crew of Maluhia.  I was born in Eastern Washington and grew up in Freeman, Washington.   My first sailing experience was on a 65-foot sailboat as a deckhand, engineer, and dive master in the late 80s.   We made weekly trips across the gulf stream to the Bahamas from Miami.  I spent around year in Florida before returning to Washington to finish my education.  I graduate in 1993 from Washington State University with BS in Civil Engineering.   After college, I took a temporary position with Acme Materials and Construction in the Concrete Paving Division.  I started in quality control in Mountain Home, Idaho and finished as the Grinding Division Manager for Acme Concrete Paving.  Along the way, I have work in most of the Western United States and survived several ownership changes. 

I work for 22 years for Acme in which time I met and married my wife Karen and got two boys, Jason and Justin in the process.

At the end of July 2015, I decided I had been a temporary employee long enough and retired to concentrate on looking for a sailboat.  The search took me until the spring of 2016 when I begin the courtship of Maluhia.  

Maluhia

The Start of the Adventure

 

 

 





SV Maluhia



My adventure on Maluhia begun May 18, 2016. The adventure started when I purchased Maluhia from the previous owners who are headed on to new adventure in their lives.  To be truthful the adventure started long ago when I decided I wanted sailboat that could take me anywhere I want to go, but that is a store for a later time. 

On May 31, 2016, the U.S. Coast Guard Documentation Center issued the new documentation for Maluhia.  Maluhia homeport is Ventura, CA and she was born in Fullerton, CA and is Hull 251. She is a 1992 Pacific Seacraft Crealock 37, designed by William Crealock.   If you are interested in her stats, you can find them at http://bluewaterboats.org/pacific-seacraft-crealock-37

Maluhia resides in La Cruz in the Bay of Banderas on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.