Fully retired; former military pilot; learned to sail at age 13; single-handed Catalina 22's up and down the Southern California coast in my younger days; avid and extensive recreational and race sailing since retiring in 2020, primarily in 40'/12m-class monohull boats on the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, Long Island Sound to Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod, Maine and South Carolina coasts, and the ICW (Hilton Head Island, SC to Cocoa, FL). I have done 2 passages, one from Norfolk, VA, to BVI and one from St. Maarten to Newport, RI, via Bermuda.

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ASA-101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 & 118 certified; I own and am proficient with a sextant; 323 voyages / 1735 hours / 160 days-at-sea / 8155 nm recent experience (summer 2019-present) - 27% spent racing; experience with: Catalina 250, Coronado 25, Saber 27, Beneteau 323, Pearson 36, J/40, Oceanis 41, Beneteau 411, Formosa 41, Luders 44, Sun Odyssey 440, Catalina 445, Bristol 45.5, Bavaria Vision 46, Beneteau 49, Tayana 52, Swan 651, and a 92' 1-hull design all-wood Bugeye-rigged schooner (see Schooner "Rainbow" in profile pictures).

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Bottom line...I just love sailing and, being a "cheap bastard", I love sailing OPB (other people's boats). ;-)