Meet Our Instructors
Ed Poznek
Ed Poznek has been a member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary for the past 40 years.
During his time with the Auxiliary, he has served in various Flotilla and Division staff office positions and is a past Flotilla Commander with 4-76.
He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Christopher Columbus Charter School and a founding member and former CEO of the Maritime Academy Charter School in Philadelphia. Ed also teaches as an Adjunct Faculty member at the Community College of Philadelphia and holds a Merchant Marine Masters License for small vessels.
Ed has a bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Temple University and had served as a Reserve Officer with the Naval Reserve.
Jim Campbell
Jim started sailing at the age of 13 at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. In his later teenage years, he built a couple of boats and converted a rowboat into a sailboat. He bought his first production sailboat at the age of 26. It was a 24’ Rainbow that was designed for the Annapolis Sailing School and adopted by the Naval Academy as their initial training vessel. He kept the Rainbow during the summer on the Bohemia River on the eastern shore of Maryland and sailed it regularly to Riverside for winter storage and maintenance.
Unfortunately, keeping the Rainbow forever was not in the picture. After a decade of occasionally sailing on other people’s boats, Jim purchased a Hunter 25.5 and during the summer kept it on the Sassafras River, also on the eastern shore of Maryland. Jim sailed this boat around the upper Chesapeake and in the winter kept it at Pier 3 in Philadelphia. After owning the Hunter for eight years, he sold it and purchased an O’Day 322 which he still sails today. He also kept this boat at Pier 3 and would venture occasionally back down into the Chesapeake. Recently Jim moved the O’Day down to Longport, NJ which is a few towns south of Atlantic City on Absecon Island.
Jim is generally knowledgeable about sailing, navigation, communications, weather, and diesel mechanics and has been a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary for about four years.
Anthony DeJoseph
Anthony is an excited committed member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. He is a certified and qualified Instructor.
He started sailing while a student at Temple University. Taking sailing class there, his first sailing experience was at Temple’s boat house on the Schuylkill river. One valuable lesson from that class was learning how to purposely capsize the boat and then right it, because sometimes you need to know how much is too much, in order to know what is enough… when heeling your boat. Safety on the water has become a priority and he brings this to his teaching.
He also took classes with the American Red Cross and sailed in South Jersey, Barnegat Bay, the Chesapeake Bay, Florida, and Narraganset Bay. He sailed in a variety of vessels from antique wooden boats, Hobie catamarans, up to 40-foot sloops.
For many years he served as an instructor for a financial services firm and then for a local utility company. While working at the utility company Anthony developed a strong value for safety, and he brings that “Safety First” attitude to boating.
Dorothy ‘Dot’ M. French, VFC
Dot French has served in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary for ten years and she is a recipient of awards for Public Education from the USCGAUX and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
As a USCGAUX Public Education Officer, she has taught courses including : Sailing Skills and Seamanship, Boating Skills and Seamanship, About Boating Safely, Advanced Coastal Navigation and How to Read a Nautical Chart.
Dot French has fourteen years of on-the-water experience , both inland and near shore , sailboat and powerboat.
She is a contributing member of Riverton Yacht Club , NJ.