HAVILAH HAWKINS, a second generation captain, was raised in the windjammer business on the schooners STEPHEN TABER, ALICE WENTWORTH, and MARY DAY which was designed by his father, Captain Havilah Hawkins, Sr. Havilah, also a fourth-generation boatbuilder on his mother’s side, designed and built his 50’ gaffheaded sloop VELA, with help from the Wooden Boat Co. in Rockport, Maine. He has been running a daysailing business out of Martha’s Vineyard for the past 11 years. Havilah has had a 100 ton auxiliary sail license for carrying passengers for 30 years.