About Captain Rick

HERON ISLAND GUIDES

About Captain Rick

    In the mid-1980’s, Captain Rick Rhodes moved onto a sailboat to live aboard. Soon, he was extensively sailing the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. During the 1990’s, he twice sailed his 33-footer to Central America. He split his liveaboard time with another boat –a 28-foot powerboat in Washington DC. In the 2000’s, after serving as a Peace Corps Volunteers in Ecuador, Captain Rick moved aboard a 25-foot pocket trawler to continue guidebook researching and writing –exploring from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico, Florida’s Gulf Coast, and the entire length of the Ohio River along with its many tributaries. Captain Rhodes has researched and written nine guidebooks. Wherever he’s been, he has engrossed himself in local history, and has a passion to share this with readers.

    Rick grew up in the Midwest and Washington DC. He has a degree from West Virginia University and graduate degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Captain Rhodes has twice served as an instructor –in the late 1970’s, with the US Army, at the Corps of Engineer School; and in the late 1980’s, with the Annapolis Sailing School. He is well-traveled in the Americas, and can speak a bit of Spanish. His 16 years of federal service was highlighted by contributions to the NAFTA. Besides boating to various regions, in 1972, he hiked the Appalachian Trail. Soon after, he motorcycled throughout all 48 contiguous states, and to Canada and Mexico.

    Captain Rick has always had a passion for trailblazing, and has often found himself to be one of the first in an area that would later become heavily treaded. In St. Petersburg Florida, Rick is an active member of the local YMCA, the Bay Area Professional Writer’s Guild, and Toastmasters.

Contact Captain Rick Rhodes:
    7047 Mt. DeLeon Rd. NE
    St. Petersburg, FL 33702
    Toll Free: 888-459-5992
    Mobile: 727-459-5992
    Fax: 727-527-8287
    Emails: rick@rickrhodes.com
    or rkrhodes@hotmail.com