In 1963, while diving off the coast of Florida key's, the great adventurer and bon vivant, J.P. Elderman, found the remains of a mammoth. A month later Elderman left Key West with his ship the Carribean Waves and a small but dedicated crew, in search of more mammoth remains lying at the bottom of the ocean. And not without success. On a small shoal Elderman found more bones, a skull, and nine fossils of the foot of a mammoth.

Convinced that the origin of the mammoth is in South America, Elderman and his crew decided to sail south. The Carribean Waves was last seen by fishermen off the coast of Haiti in 1965. According to local fishermen divers were seen climbing aboard the Carribean Waves with what looked like the tusks off an elephant. But since then, nobody ever saw or heard anything of the Carribean Waves and her crew again.

That is, until 1999, when a man died of old age on the Mangrove Islands off the coast of Nicaragua. The only thing people knew about him was that he had suffered from amnesia and that no one had ever seen him before 1969. When the local police visited his hut, they found a big tusk and a wooden sign with the name Carribean Waves. Unfortunately, it was never determined whether the dead man was Elderman or one of his crew members, but it certainly makes for a very intriguing story.

Inspired by Elderman's sense of adventure, we decided to sail the same route and called it the Elderman trail. We named one of our polo shirts after his boat, the Carribean Waves and designed a long sleeved t-shirt and called it The Elderman. And, of course, we took pride in choosing the mammoth, the animal Elderman so passionately tried to trace the history of, as our logo.