Joe Rosenfeld

Joe Rosenfeld started working on boats as a teenager when his $100 wooden catboat sank the day after he sailed it home. The craft, christened Diphtheria, mostly floated through Joe's high school years until a shoreside keg party sent it to Valhalla. Over the next 40 years, the quality of the fixer-uppers went from left for dead to just a little down on her luck as Joe's career as a high-voltage lineman progressed. Along the way, he became an award-winning restorer of wooden boats and an avid club racer on Lake Ontario and in East Coast ocean races. Joe, his wife, Mary Beth, and their fox terrier, Flexy, are cruising on their 2003 Tartan 3700, Sapphire.