Owner's Biographical Statement:
My love for boating began even before I was born, while my mother and father were visiting Yosemite Lake. My parents decided to rent a wooden row boat, which my 8 month pregnant mother wound up having to row. I have had a love for the water and boats for as long as I can remember. In 1994, while aboard a friend’s vintage yacht on a Catalina outing, the water pump failed. I instantly offered to go into the bilge area to fix it. An hour later, I had rebuilt the water pump and we continued our journey.
I embarked on a military career in 1990 that spanned 17 years with the Marine Corps rebuilding jet engines for the F-18. I also applied my mechanical and cooking talents as a crew member aboard MY Nordic Star, a 95’ private yacht . This later led to another crew position with the classic boat charter company, through which I learned the basics of operating a charter company.
Upon relocating to San Diego, I began working as a reporter for a local magazine. The position helped me to establish relationships with San Diego’s business and political leaders, some of which I maintain to this day. In 2001, I became a member of the Greater San Diego Business Association (GSDBA), and from 2002 through 2004 I served on their board of directors. My service with the GSDBA provided further opportunities to build alliances and connections that will be very helpful in developing business for this venture.
I've enjoyed diverse careers in cooking, boating, mechanical fields and public relations. Each of these avocations together gave me a range of skills, but I still wanted something that allowed me to tie all these skills together. I was looking for a new direction (mid-life crisis? maybe.) My father had always dreamed big, and even though some of his dreams never came to reality, I knew it was time for me to chase one of my own big dreams.
On December 12, 2008, I first stepped onto the boarding ladder of the vessel I would name the Compass Rose. The dream I brought aboard with me was to restore a vessel that could serve as a boat and breakfast and harbor cruise business. I needed a vessel that had the appeal and bones to entertain and delight her guests. A yacht that would show off the finest that American craftsmanship had to offer; whose nautical heritage was worthy of remembrance; and whose time tested style could be married to a modern esthetic. By the time I descended into her main salon, I knew I had found the boat I was looking for.
Over the course of six and a half years, I have worked diligently to restore this vessel - to carefully prepare her for a new life as a boat and breakfast and classic cruiser. All the work I have done, has been of the best quality and durability. With meticulous care, I have exorcized the damage and neglect that accumulated over the boat's 49 year history. With each new plank and every fresh coat of varnish, the facets of this gem have begun to shine again.
The Compass Rose now stands at the last leg of this journey, ready to cross into her new life. The plan laid forth here is an invitation to join me as I steer this vessel through these final straights and set her course to the “second star to the right, and straight on 'till morning . . .”
As the preceding quote denotes, I have always believed in the ability to dream. But I also believe in the ethic of hard work needed to transform dreams into reality. Some have asked why I would want to start this venture in such a difficult economic period. My response, is that Hershey’s Chocolate was started at the height of the Great Depression. Negative economic cycles are not turned around by groundhogs that sense the weather and decide to hibernate longer. And my recollection is that ground hogs are oftentimes wrong.
Please feel free to contact me and offer your feedback on my project:
Timothy P. Holmberg
2907 Shelter Island Drive 105
San Diego, CA 92106
(619) 850-5039
[email protected]
I embarked on a military career in 1990 that spanned 17 years with the Marine Corps rebuilding jet engines for the F-18. I also applied my mechanical and cooking talents as a crew member aboard MY Nordic Star, a 95’ private yacht . This later led to another crew position with the classic boat charter company, through which I learned the basics of operating a charter company.
Upon relocating to San Diego, I began working as a reporter for a local magazine. The position helped me to establish relationships with San Diego’s business and political leaders, some of which I maintain to this day. In 2001, I became a member of the Greater San Diego Business Association (GSDBA), and from 2002 through 2004 I served on their board of directors. My service with the GSDBA provided further opportunities to build alliances and connections that will be very helpful in developing business for this venture.
I've enjoyed diverse careers in cooking, boating, mechanical fields and public relations. Each of these avocations together gave me a range of skills, but I still wanted something that allowed me to tie all these skills together. I was looking for a new direction (mid-life crisis? maybe.) My father had always dreamed big, and even though some of his dreams never came to reality, I knew it was time for me to chase one of my own big dreams.
On December 12, 2008, I first stepped onto the boarding ladder of the vessel I would name the Compass Rose. The dream I brought aboard with me was to restore a vessel that could serve as a boat and breakfast and harbor cruise business. I needed a vessel that had the appeal and bones to entertain and delight her guests. A yacht that would show off the finest that American craftsmanship had to offer; whose nautical heritage was worthy of remembrance; and whose time tested style could be married to a modern esthetic. By the time I descended into her main salon, I knew I had found the boat I was looking for.
Over the course of six and a half years, I have worked diligently to restore this vessel - to carefully prepare her for a new life as a boat and breakfast and classic cruiser. All the work I have done, has been of the best quality and durability. With meticulous care, I have exorcized the damage and neglect that accumulated over the boat's 49 year history. With each new plank and every fresh coat of varnish, the facets of this gem have begun to shine again.
The Compass Rose now stands at the last leg of this journey, ready to cross into her new life. The plan laid forth here is an invitation to join me as I steer this vessel through these final straights and set her course to the “second star to the right, and straight on 'till morning . . .”
As the preceding quote denotes, I have always believed in the ability to dream. But I also believe in the ethic of hard work needed to transform dreams into reality. Some have asked why I would want to start this venture in such a difficult economic period. My response, is that Hershey’s Chocolate was started at the height of the Great Depression. Negative economic cycles are not turned around by groundhogs that sense the weather and decide to hibernate longer. And my recollection is that ground hogs are oftentimes wrong.
Please feel free to contact me and offer your feedback on my project:
Timothy P. Holmberg
2907 Shelter Island Drive 105
San Diego, CA 92106
(619) 850-5039
[email protected]
Love at first sight:
The first time
I saw the Compass Rose
I saw the Compass Rose
