I never had the opportunity to get to know Charlie personally, but in the mid-1970s I frequented T.T. the Bear's in Central Sq., Cambridge, MA. It was a very different place than it is today. Back then it was a little hole-in-the-wall bar with good food. I started going there because they served a big plate of steamed clams for cheap. But at least once a week they had a live performer, and frequently it was Charlie O'Haggerty. I went every week to catch his performances. His voice was simultaneously both gravelly and beautifully melodic, and left me with a sense that he and his singing were authentic. It was there that I bought both of the Starboard List LPs, and it was from them that I learned many of my favorite sea chanteys. I still listen to them today, over three decades later. That's how I came to Google his name just now and discover the obit.

Safe harbor, Charlie.