Michael Schefers:
CLASS OF 1971
South High SchoolClass of 1971
Torrance, CA
Riviera Elementary SchoolClass of 1967
Torrance, CA
Michael's Story
Hard to believe we are all in our 70's now. It has been a grand life! After high school a move to Hawaii to surf (my parents really thought it was to go to school) followed by moving to San Francisco. There I caught a ship, a tanker, and started a 30 year career/voyage on many ships, in good weather and bad, war zones and tropical paradises, until retirement at 50. Messing about on a sailboat I was restoring, I took a couple of classes at the local Community College. I fell in love with going to school, eventually transferring to UC Berkeley and getting my degree at 60. Do it backwards, ...Expand for more
no? I retired from a state job and moved to Port Angeles WA, just across the Straits from Victoria with Olympic National Park in my backyard. As I said, a grand life! You might try reaching me with yahoo. I use tropixsea for my name. Sort of apropos, doncha think?
As for the photos, there is one from the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival from last year, another while on a walk across England when I was 50, another right before going ashore in San Francisco at around 40, and the last one in an engine room at around 30. As I mentioned, the profile pic was on the Camino de Santiago in 2022
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