That's the rating first awarded to Volunteers starting in 2003, who had achieved over 100 hours of time dedicated to supporting the building, launch, and sailing of Spirit of South Carolina. The program languished after 2011 as the schooner fell into hard times and was laid up. In February 2019, the Volunteer Program was resurrected. By that time, Ken Fonville was just getting actively involved. As a "walk-on" Ken came down to the dock one day and offered to help out wherever he could. I remember his mentioning one caveat, as an past executive in the furniture building industry, he preferred NOT to do varnishing. I think within the first few weeks, he found himself scraping and prepping a scarf of the cap rail, for , you guessed it,, varnishing.
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| Ken Fonville (the tall guy) with other volunteers on return from Shipyard at Thunderbolt in Savannah. |
Since that time Ken's laid into just about every project started on Spirit of South Carolina, including two days in dry dock in Shipyard in Savannah.
He's also logged several day sails in the harbor, including delivery back to Charleston from shipyard.
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