64 years old and retired, I'm finally getting around to doing more of the things I have always loved.  I have been sailing for about 40 years, starting with a little Glen-L catamaran and a Cub Scout sailing merit badge handbook.  Over the years I have owned a wooden catboat, built in the 1890s for Barnegat Bay, a 24 foot Venture and, finally, my friend and companion of 25 years, Circe.  Circe is a yellow 1976 Pearson 30 and we have covered a lot of miles together.  From 1978, when I bought her, until 2000 her home was on Lake Michigan.  When I returned to my childhood home in New Jersey, she came with me.  Our trip across Lake Erie, down the Erie Canal and down the Hudson would have made a great subject for this site.  Sadly, I didn't do anything in the way of photos and the log consists of a notebook full of cryptic notes that would be way too much trouble to put into coherent form.  Suffice it to say it was a grand experience.

The things I love are closely related.  Sailing and travelling.  My wife, Pat, and I will be spending much of the year travelling in Europe and the Islands.  To facilitate the second part, we will be moving Circe to the Bahamas, beginning with a trip down the ICW to Miami this fall and crossing to the Bahamas in the spring.  Several people on the Sailnet P30 site have asked if I will be posting a log or pictures, so I set up this site to accomodate their vicarious pleasure.  Maybe it will inspire some of them to do the same sooner rather than later.