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Sailing CatamaranA few years ago, my wife Karen and I bought a sailboat and took our kids sailing around the Caribbean for nearly a year (see Google Earth visualization of that trip, and see the "blog" for that trip). My wife and I thought cruising and exploring by sailboat was such a great idea, we planned to do it again when our kids moved out for college. In fact, we decided we would sell our house, buy a new boat, and live and sail around the world for five years. Guess what? Our kids (who are twins) are starting college right now. And we just bought a new sailboat called Tahina! We picked up Tahina in the Bahamas in mid-August 2008 and brought to our home state - North Carolina..

Recent Entries

New Ocean Floor Imagery in Google Earth
This weekend Google released new imagery of the ocean floor in Google Earth.  It has higher resolution, and more accurate,…
Day Sail St. Marys - 10-January 2009
On Saturday, I invited my brother and his family to come down to the boat for a sail.  The weather…
Dinghy loading/unloading and break-in runs
Got up early to prepare for some runs with out new dinghy "Coconut".  The dinghy is a 12-foot Apex Inflatable…