Susan
Peterson Gateley is a native upstate New Yorker, former teacher,
and icthyoplankton taxonomist, who single handed the wooden sloop
"Ariel" in search of stories for boating and nature
magazines for 17 years. In 1996 she acquired a different boat and
partner and added Gateley to her name. Her articles about Lake
Ontario have run in numerous local and national publications and she
has written seven books about the lake. She has a masters degree in
fisheries science and has worked in Massachusetts and on the
Chesapeake Bay. She currently sails on Little Sodus Bay aboard a 32
foot Chris Craft sloop, “Titania” and on a 38 foot
Tancook schooner “Sara B”. Her latest book Twinkle
Toes and the Riddle of the Lake for the young and young at
heart is a blend of fiction and fact about Lake Ontario for 4th
grade and up
Susan Peterson Gateley
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