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Any Sailors out there?

Ben

24 November 2005 14:52:28

Joined: 24 November 2005 14:43:46 | Posts: 6

Hi all you sailors out there! - After 30 years of power boats I bought a 17 sloop just to try out sailing. Well after the sloop and reading untold numbers of cruising books my wife said why dont we get a sailboat! It did not take very long to sell the power boat we had and we started to look at sailboats.

She liked the 30 ft. catalina , but I found a 1981 hunter 36 designed by cheribini. what a beautifull boat that turned out to be. We sailed her from n.y. to maine, and also sailed her for 5 week vacations to chessapeake bay and the surrounding area and back to n.y.

After about 6 years we decided to look for a boat we could retire on and live aboard for extensive periods.We found a c and c landfall 43 that was for sale at a yacht brokers in newport rhode island. After making an offer that the owner accepted we were now the proud owners of a landfall 43.

About 2 years later I retired and we loaded up the boat and headed south for the adventure of a lifetime. We traveled the i.c.w. down the east coast and ended up in palm beach area in a place called lake worth.

This large bay was home for many boats for the winter. I started to meet some of the other sailors anchored nearby waiting for a weather window to cross the gulf stream to the abaco islands.

To shorten this story a bit we cruised the abacos with 4 other boats and loved every minute of it.I hope that some of you fellows get to have similar adventures and know that I will never forget those great times .

We have since scaled back to a 32 ft erickson and enjoyed that boat very much but did mostly daysailing.Good luck to all of you and live life to its fullest.
Ben