This is how it all started…

Have you ever dreamed of going sailing?

It all started on my wife’s 50th birthday. She wanted to try something new and exciting. An ad for a free introductory sailing lesson caught her eye; she thought it might be a fun adventure. I hadn’t sailed for 30 years since my teenage days on small Hobie Cats in Biscayne Bay, Miami. Yet, within five minutes of being on that 19-foot Flying Scott with an instructor and two other students, we both knew sailing would be the focus of the next phase of our lives.

As we planned for our empty-nester future, we progressively downsized as each of our three kids left for college. During this time, we purchased a Newport 16, a small pocket yacht/daysailer, and started sailing on the Potomac as much as possible.

One night, while browsing boats online, my wife discovered a 1969 Morgan 38 that was 90% restored but missing a mast. We purchased this boat from the Deltaville Maritime Museum and searched all over Deltaville for the missing mast. We never found it, but buying this boat marked the beginning of our first live-aboard adventure. We lived on the Morgan for a year until circumstances brought us back to land.

Our sailing journey didn’t end there. We then bought a Paceship 26 to sail on the Chesapeake, followed by a Venture of Newport 23, a trailer sailor. Now, we own a Hunter Vision 32, which we sailed from Annapolis up the Potomac River to our current marina in Dahlgren, VA.

The next phase of our adventure is to explore the Chesapeake during the summer and fall, then head down the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) to Florida for the winter. After that, who knows where the wind will take us?

I’m setting up my business to allow me to work while sailing. For now, we plan to keep our house in Richmond, splitting our time between the boat and the house.

The journey continues…