Rick Miller
Rick Miller
Captain, Assistant Professor of Nautical Science
M.S., Education: Post-Secondary and Adult Education: 2010, Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota
B.S., Physical Education and General Science: 1975, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts
About
Captain Richard (Rick) Miller is recently retired as a Professor and Dean of Faculty at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. His classes of instruction include Terrestrial Navigation (Coastal Piloting), Celestial Navigation, Seamanship, Electronic Navigation, Meteorology, and Marine Weather Routing. Rick earned his bachelor degree from Springfield College and a Master of Science in Education from Capella University. He has successfully blended his academic training as an educator with his passion for sailing for more than 40 years, sailing on a number of sail training vessels and many years with the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School. In 2008 he was master aboard Maine Maritime Academy’s schooner Bowdoin for a training expedition to the Arctic along the west coast of Greenland. Rick continues to be active as a mariner, sailing annually with Sea Education Association as a master of vessels transiting Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Since his retirement from the Academy, Rick now sails with SEA in a more typical Captain’s schedule. Rick and his wife Cathy live in Camden, ME with two daughters living and working in mid-coast Maine.