Captain Murray Tate is a congenial third generation
Alaskan who hails from Petersburg, Alaska. He holds a U. S. Coast Guard
Master's License for 50-ton vessels. As a Washington State University Civil
Engineer graduate, he is also a licensed Professional Engineer in both Alaska
and Washington. He has been a commercial fisherman; owned his own commercial
building construction business out of Fairbanks, Alaska for 20 years; and
operated a 56-foot landing craft on the Yukon River and Norton Sound. He
has lived, built and traveled all over Alaska from Ketchikan to Prudhoe
Bay. He has been operating Nuliaq Alaska Charters out of Valdez since 1985.Phyllis Tate was born in Fairbanks and has lived, worked and traveled extensively throughout Alaska her entire life. As a youth in rural Alaska, she was both home schooled and sent to boarding school. She attended the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. She worked as an executive secretary in the petroleum, airline, environmental and banking industries. Phyllis has also been a free lance journalist and part-time teacher. Although she is an active private pilot with an instrument rating, she savors her summers cruising on Prince William Sound.
Murray and Phyllis own a beautiful 2-story log home built by Murray on the shores of Lake Minchumina (population 35) where dawn breaks over Mt. McKinley. They take advantage of their quiet winter days by pouring through recipes for their next cruising, season, when they are not cross-country skiing, stoking the fires, reading, sewing, writing, listening to music, or socializing with friends.
John Twardowski hold a U.S. Coast Guard Master's License as well as a Private Pilot license. He is also a licensed big game guide for brown bear and dall sheep and has lived and worked in rural Alaska for the past 25 years. We think John is the best! He is a patient, cautious, considerate and rugged individual with a good sense of humor. John understands wildlife behavior better than anyone we know. He does a lot of our shoreside guiding when he is not baiting hooks or filleting fish. We'd be willing to bet John has seen more of Alaska on foot than anyone else his age. No one out walks John!
