Sultana Downrigging 2024

Iver Franzen's 45- year maritime career has included work both as a captain and as a naval
architect. Iver became a licensed captain in 1980, and now has a 500 Ton Master's License, with
endorsements for auxiliary sail and 1600 Ton OSVs. After earning his BA from Union College in
1974 and working as a professional ski patrolman and mountain SAR coordinator at Killington,
he worked many years as a charter and delivery captain, and many more as a commercial
passenger vessel captain, throughout the East Coast and Caribbean. He's worked in naval
architecture since 1987, starting with an intensive 5-year apprenticeship with Professor Thomas
Gillmer (US Naval Academy, retired), becoming a member of SNAME in 1992. He's been
involved in numerous projects such as Pride of Baltimore II, Kalmar Nyckel, the 1996 refit of
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), USS Constellation, Clipper City, USCG Eagle, Elissa,
Providence, MD Dove, to name only a few. Iver opened his own naval architecture practice in
Annapolis in 1996, and continues to work as a sailing, power, tall ship and commercial vessel
designer (new-builds, conversions and repair), USCG certification consultant, researcher and
writer, educator, public speaker, and, when an interesting situation comes along, as a captain.
Cell: 410-279-7688