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James Frederick (b.1975)

James Frederick is a sailor who is currently circumnavigating onboard his 1965 Alberg 30 Sloop, SV TRITEIA. After purchasing the boat in 2017, Frederick spent four years doing an extensive refit, one project at a time while also exploring the Channel Islands of California. During that time Frederick was also working on yacht deliveries as both crew and later as captain to gain ocean sailing experience and collect sea miles, gaining more than 23k miles as of 2025. By 2020 he had gained his Master License with the USCG and completed the refit of Triteia into a serious blue water cruising yacht. Departing Los Angeles in August of 2021 bound for the Hawaiian Islands, about how way to the islands he struck a submerged object that broke Triteia’s rudder, leaving them adrift for three days, some 1000 miles from the nearest land; Oahu, Hawaii. Rigging up a drogue to steer by, the next 18 days Triteia held her course under reduced sail completing the 2300 mile passage after 32 days at sea.

After spending eight months in the Hawaiian Islands and completing the necessary repairs Frederick sailed for French Polynesia and on to American Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand where they spent a year cruising before crossing the Tasman Sea to Sydney. In Sydney James was joined by a romantic partner who sailed up the Australian Coast and through to Indonesia as far as Bali. Returning to Solo sailing, Frederick sailed on to Borneo, Singapore, Malaysia and up the Malacca Strait to Langkawi. By the end of 2025 Frederick had covered more than 18k nautical miles since leaving Los Angeles.

In addition to solo sailing, James has also sailed as crew on yachts in the Orkney Islands, Swedish Archipelago, Åland Islands. He has sailed the viking route from Newfoundland to Greenland and on to Iceland after transiting Prince Christian Sound in Southern Greenland. Frederick has crossed the Bermuda Triangle sailing from Puerto Rico to Bermuda to North Carolina. He has also sailed the entire west coast of the United States on boats from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to San Diego Bay. 

James’ cruising is fully funded through weekly video uploads to his YouTube channel and with the support of my patrons. He also works as a writer for sailing magazines and self-publish books.

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Selected Sailing Experience

2014 – Orkney Islands / Caledonian Canal
2015 – California Coast / San Diego to SF Bay
2016 – Puerto Rico / Bermuda / North Carolina
2017 – Stockholm Archipelago / Åland Islands
2017 - 2021 – Channel Islands of California
2019 – Seattle to Los Angeles
2021 – Passage to Hawaiian Islands
2022 – Hawaii to Tuamotus/Societies/American Samoa/Fiji/NZ
2023 – Cruising New Zealand
2023 – Newfoundland / Greenland / Iceland (with 59º North)
2024 – Tasman Sea passage / Australia / Indonesia
2025 - Indonesia / Borneo / Singapore / Malaysia / Thailand

Circumnavigation Numbers

4 years - 18,500 NM
6 solo ocean passages / 1 Double-handed Passage
9 countries - 259 anchorages visited  

Published Works

2019 – Six Nights on the Hook at Santa Cruz Island
            Self Published Paperback Book (NOV)
2021 – Logs From The Good Ship Triteia
            Self Published Paperback Book (NOV)
2021 – 1000 Miles Steered by Drogue
            Ocean Cruising Club’s - Flying Fish Journal - 2021/2 (OCT)
2022 – Exploring Oahu’s Leeward Coast
            Ocean Cruising Club’s - Flying Fish Journal - 2022/2 (OCT)
2023 – A Sailing Dream Achieved
            Good Old Boat Magazine - Issue 148 (JAN/FEB)
2023 – Adrift in the Pacific; 1000 Miles with No Rudder
            Yachting World Magazine (APR)
2023 – Triteia on a Lee Shore
             Latitude 38 Magazine - #550 (APR)
2023 – Exploring Oahu’s Kaneohe Bay
            Cruising World Magazine (MAY)
2023 – Special Report: Cruising New Zealand
             Yachting World Magazine (SEP)
2024 – Going Solo (Cover Story)
             Yachting World Magazine (JAN)
2024 – Cruising French Polynesia (Cover Story)
            Latitude 38 Magazine - #560 (FEB)
2024 – Frankenstein’s Galley
            Good Old Boat Magazine (Digital / Final issue of GOB)
2024 - A Trespassers Guide To Exotic Resorts of the South Pacific
            Latitudes & Attitudes Magazine - #47 (MAY/JUNE)
2025 - The Channel Islands of California; A Cruising Guide
            Self Published Paperback Book (APRIL)
2025 - Paying the Adventure Tax
           SAIL Magazine - (MAY)
2025 - Sailing Plans are Written In the Sand at Low Tide
            Latitudes & Attitudes Magazine - #53 (MAY)
2025 – What I Have Learned From Sailing Halfway Around the World Alone
            Yachting World Magazine (AUGUST)

Awards

2022 - Ocean Cruising Club - Qualifiers Mug
2023 - Creators Award - YouTube 100k

Speaking Engagements 

2023 - Wandering the World by Sail Presentation
            Patagona - Santa Monica, California (JUNE)
2025 - Cruising the Channel Islands Presentation
            Port Royal Yacht Club, Redondo Beach, California (MARCH)
2025 - Circumnavigation So Far... Presentation
            Ventura Yacht Club, Ventura, California (MARCH)
2025 - Solo Sailing Presentation presented by The Singlehanded Sailing Society
            Richmond Yacht Club, Richmond, California (MARCH)
            https://youtu.be/ClSiSryUznY?si=_A-x8CR7nD_2MXL_
2025 - Circumnavigation So Far... Presentation
            Berkeley Yacht Club, Berkeley, California (MARCH)
            https://youtu.be/ee-vvVQpvsQ?si=Ye5rcLRsKa8QnzAR 

Links

YouTube: http://youtube.com/sailorjames

Various: https://linktr.ee/sailor_james 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sailorjames 

Tracker and Blog: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/Triteia 

Instagram: http://instagram.com/james.the.sailor.man

Email: jamesthesailorman@gmail.com

S/V TRITEIA
1965 ALBERG 30 - Hull #55 

I found Triteia in the Los Angeles Harbor forgotten and bound for the scapeyard. I bought her for $2400 with a siezed engine and stripped bare of all gear but a worn out set of mismatched sails in April of 2017.

Over the next 4 years I slowly refit her into a serious ocean going bluewater cruising, working paycheck to paycheck I did all the work myself and slowly she became the boat I always dreamt of owning but could never afford. 

REFIT HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

• Custom Mast / Double spreader rig with all new electornics including Strobe, All New rigging, Internal mast halyards, Solent Stay, Roller Furler & External Chainplates.

• Custom Hard dodger with opening forward hatches

• Self Tailing Lewmar Ocean 46 winches

• Lewmar Ocean 65 forward hatch custom install

• Custom Hatch Turtle with solar

• Custom adjustable solar panels on quarters

• All dyneema life lines

• 45lb Mantus anchor with 300ft of 5/16 HT chain and 200ft of Rope rode. 

• Custom built intergrated 35 gallon water tank in bilge.

• Custom built enclosed "wet head" with shower and hot water.

• Compression post under mast glass into hull.

• Custom built Stove enclosure.

• Custom built refriderator box made to shape out of  fiberglass with new Isotherm Cold Plate.

• Custom built Navigation Station with all new blue sea panels, Victron Battery Monitor, Icom VHF, JBL stereo and Raymarine repeater.

• All new cushions for cabin

• Rebuilt Yanmar 2gm20F diesel engine

• all new Groco tri-flange bronze seacock fittings for every through hull. 

• PSS Dripless shaft seal plus new 1" prop shaft and new propeller. 

Those are the major upgrades along with many other minor projects that went in to making her a blue water cruiser.