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I learned to sail when I was 13. I remember one hot summer day, sitting on the lawn of my best friend's house when I was 15 and he asked me, "What do you want to do, Scott?" and I replied, "Sail to the South Pacific!" Then in May of 1961, when I was eighteen, my girlfriend had just broken up with me. I had finished my final exams at college so I bought an airline ticket to St Thomas and got a job as a crew on a 41 foot ketch sailing from St Thomas to Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Bahamas and finally arrived six weeks later in Miami where I left the boat and hitch-hiked home to CT in 26 hrs. In 1969, I got married and bought a 23 foot sloop that we sailed to Martha's Vineyard for out two week vacations the next two summers. My wife loved sailing so we bought a 30 foot Seawind Ketch and in Sept of 1971 left on a four year circumnavigation via the Panama Canal and the cape of Good Hope. We got back in the summer of 1975 and started a family. In 1987, we quit our jobs once again and took our two sons ages 9 & 11 on a second four year circumnavigation this time via the Red Sea and the Med. By then we were sailing a Valiant 40. In 2001 I retired and we have been mostly sailing and living on the Valiant 40 since then; except for the past year due to the fact that I had a total knee replacement a year ago and the arrival of our first granddaughter.
That is probably too much of a sailing resume; but I just wanted to show that sailing can be addictive!
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