Winston Hovey was born and raised in Fredrickson, New Brunswick, Canada. He attended Fredrickson HS then University of New Brunswick. He then immigrated to the US and entered the US Air Force and went to Southeast Asia.Thereafter he became a contract engineer for various building companies, then a self-employed contractor for twenty years. Winston has retired but does relief captain work on occasion. His interests include motorcycle riding, Traveling, RVing, yachting.