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