The Crew
The 1985 crew The 2005 crew1985 Crew
- Simon Le Bon
- UK - Lead singer of Duran Duran and the person behind this crazy idea!
Duran Duran - Paul Berrow
- UK - Ex Owner of Drum and former manager of Duran Duran
- Mike Berrow
- UK - Ex Owner of Drum and former manager of Duran Duran
- Skip Novak
- US - Famous sailor in high latitudes. Mountaineer and journalist
Pelagic - Phil Wade
- South Africa. - Well known ex racing sailor and now skipper of the Super yacht Timoneer
Timoneer - John Irving
- UK - Partner of Nautor UK - Agent for Swan Yachts.
- Terry Gould
- New Zealand - Well known ex racing sailor and now co skipper of Superyacht Adix
- Rick Tomlinson
- UK - One of the top world yachting photographers
Rick Tomlinson Photography - Chris Barker
- New Zealand - Boat builder and racing sailor
- Max Bourgeois
- France - Yacht captain in the Mediteranean
- Roger Nilson
- Sweden - Renowned Swedish sailor who recently navigated on "Orange" - see below
- Phil Holland
- New Zealand - Yacht broker in Auckland and ex racing sailor. Brother of designer Ron Holland
- Neil Cheston
- UK/France - Ex yacht captain and racer, now yacht broker in the south of France
- Bruno Peyron
- France - Probably most famous sailor in France, Bruno has just smashed the world record by 9 days on maxi catamaran "Orange"
- Pascal Pellat-Finet
- France - Captain of super yacht "Tiara" and helicopter pilot
- Chas from Tas
- Australia - Very well known sailor all over the world
- Trevor Dowe
- UNKNOWN
- Phil Barrett
- UK - Racing sailor now living in Australia with his own Sparmaking and Rigging business. He skippered Drum after the Whitbread Race
Ozspar - Johnny Le Bon
- UK - Brother of Simon Le Bon and successful osteopath
- Johnson Wooderson
- UK - Very well known sailor who has crewed on many race boats.
- Malcolm McKeag
- UK - Yachting journalist
- John Toon
- New Zealand - Made the Drum film
John Toon - Micke Olsen
- Sweden - Swedish crewmember now working in Sweden
- Magnus Olson
- Sweden - Probably one of the most well known racing sailors in Sweden. Not on board at the time of Drum capsize, but first on the scene with another boat in the race. Watch captain for Whitbread Race and leading figure
- Janne Gustaffson
- (Deceased)
2005 Crew
UPDATE: At the last minute Skip Novak could not make it as he was stuck in the ice on Pelagic in the North West Passage. However Micke Olsen turned up so there were still 14 of the original crew on board for the Fastnet. Max also sent a last minute message to say that he could not make it as he was on board his boat in a storm off Corsica and could not come to the dinner.
The following 14 members of the original crew listed below will be sailing on Arnold Clark Drum on the Fastnet Race 2005:
- Simon Lebon
- Skip Novak
- Phil Wade
- Phil Holland
- Roger Nilsen
- John Wooderson
- Terry Gould
- John Toon
- John Irving
- Neil Cheston
- Chas from Tas
- Phil Barrett
- Johnny Lebon
- Chris Barker
- Jon Nash (www.jonnashphotography.co.uk)
- Michael Berrow
- Paul Berrow
- Pacal Pellat Finet
- Max Bourgeois
- Malcolm Mckeag