Greetings! Glad I found you guys! I've been searching the web for info on
bareboat charters up and down the
east coast, and most of my area/fleet specific searches have brought me here, so I thought it might be time to join the discussions!
Quick bio - I've been
racing off-road motorcycles for most of my life, but found it difficult to include much of the
family in that activity. Now that my son has joined us (three months ago yesterday to be exact), I felt the need to find a hobby... Being a gear-head at heart, I never really felt drawn to the sailing/cruising lifestyle. Just wasn't my 'speed' if you know what I mean... That all changed when my wife and I went to visit her brother in
California. We sailed from Redondo Beach to
Catalina Island on his 31-footer for an overnight, and I was HOOKED!
I grew-up on
Lake Ontario and spent a few days every summer 'crewing' on hobie-cats and the occasional mono-hull... Last summer I decided to take sailing seriously and completed
ASA 101 and 103 with Liberty
Sailing School in Philly. I spent the rest of the summer
renting whenever I could. This year it's
ASA 104/105 in the hopes that we can start bareboating in the Chesapeake and eventually
BVI and
Florida Keys...
Anyways... That's my story in a nutshell... I look forward to contributing as well as picking all your brains!