Hello! This January will mark one year with my 1988 Freedom 38 -- Kynntana, which means "star" in Malagasy. It was my mother's stage name as an aerialist in American circuses. She did an act called the Iron Jaw where she hung by her teeth at the top of the tent. Cool lady; cool
boat. Unlike my mother, who never liked to get wet, my life revolved around the
water -- high
salt, chlorinated, fresh, underground, and brackish. I spent most of my life living around the
Florida Gulf Coast and going through a variety of
motor vessels including a 50-ft Hatteras that inhaled
diesel like it was cotton candy. After a move to the
Washington DC area, I took up sailing on the Chesapeake and had an epiphany that I was meant to be a sailor and not a
power boater. Just when I was close to
buying my own sailboat for the calm, shallow Chesapeake waters, I moved to the
San Francisco area where I realized I love
racing. Now I plan to
race Kynntana (both crewed and single-handed) over the next couple of years. I am also having great fun
learning about the art of
diesel maintenance,
electrical wiring, causes of
head stink, replacing zincs, climbing the
mast, trimming an unstayed rig,
docking in cross winds, navigating, and on and on. So, that's my story. I am looking forward to absorbing the vast knowledge of others on this site
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