Our Next Adventure Begins at Sea

Our children have left for college and instead of sitting around feeling the loss of their presence in our home, we decided to change our land home to a sea home and travel for the next 6 (+) months down to the Bahamas and possibly beyond.

My husband Ben began sailing in Wiscasset, Maine at the age of 10. His first sailing experience was in an O Day at camp and for one month every summer his camp would sail a Concordia around Maine. He bought his first sailboat in his mid 20’s out in the San Francisco Bay where he had moved. She was a 27-foot Choy Lee named Estival. As his live-in girlfriend at the time, I wasn’t very excited about this as I had hoped we’d be putting a down payment on a house, not buying a boat. I also wasn’t a huge fan initially of sailing. The San Francisco Bay wind can be brutal and cold, it took me awhile to appreciate sailing. But Ben was a good Captain and made a lot of effort to show me this world. 

I’m Katrina and I had never sailed a day in my life until my then boyfriend Ben invited me to sail on a Concordia near Cape Cod with his dad and brother. I showed up with multiple hard luggage bags, 20 pairs of shoes and formal wear. At the last minute I threw in a pair of cut off sweats and it was lucky I did because that was pretty much all I wore for the next 10 days. As it turns out I don’t get seasick which became apparent after I went below and began reading in high swells. I still wasn’t hooked though.

It wasn’t until we moved from The Bay Area back to New England and I had my first summer on Cape Cod that I began to love sailing. When I wasn’t white knuckling in freezing cold wind on a boat that was burying the rails at what felt like a near 90-degree tipping angle I was a bit more at ease. The hook was set. I became a sailor.

So now after owning three boats together we have modified, updated and refinished our 46-foot Tartan to be our home for the foreseeable future. Ben must be given the credit for most of the work. He has dedicated hundreds of hours to custom fabrication, wiring, rigging, and a multitude of improvements which will be further logged in our Technical section.

Welcome and we hope you enjoy the journey we are about to take.