My parents gave me sailing lessons for my twelfth birthday. I went nuts for sailing and after building my own sailboat when I was 14, (an El Toro), sailing my Flying Junior all over the Bay in my teens, international racing on Star Boats and other larger yachts in my twenties I stopped sailing for a “rest”.  I always knew I’d take it up again, just didn’t know when.   My love of sailing re-awakened in 2006 with a Bareboat Charter with friends Jon and Heather to British Virgin Islands.This trip got me thinking that this sailing in the tropics stuff is pretty cool. After coming back I looked around a bit at some boats and decided that the time wasn’t quite right, besides I was having a lot of fun flying to Baja and other places in my airplane.  But Jon and Heather continued in a subversive manner to re-infect me with the sailing bug. They bought their own boat, Shanti, and got me to go to the Grenadines (Caribbean) again in 2007.  …and the final straw… Jon convinced me to sail on his boat to Hawaii in the Transpac! The damage was done. I had to have a boat and sail away to the South Seas.  So, one day while reading Lattitude 38, I saw a Tayana 37 in Alameda for sale.  On a whim, I went to see the boat and immediately fell in love with it and we’re now up to the present (Sept, 2007).                                                      This blog, this adventure is born. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I’m enjoying living it. The plan: South Pacific-bound  Around 2011 or so. Stay tuned and see how close (or far off) the estimate is.