How We Got Here
[Originally posted 14 May 2023] I’m not sure when we first started talking about sailing as a family. Possibly it was in 2018, when Reggie went on a dude trip to get his ASA monohull sailing certification. It might have been before that; it might have been after that. In any case, the original plan was as follows: have two kids and live a conventional, comfortable life while we went through diapers and learning to walk and talk. And THEN, in 2025, once they were potty trained and walking and theoretically aged 3 and 5 (neither child was born yet), we would buy a boat and live the adventurous and unconventional life. However, one thing led to another and after reading lots of sailing blogs and watching lots of sailing vlogs, March 2022 found me staying at my mother-in-law Melody’s house with eight-week-old Daisy and two-year-old Ruben while realtors showed our house and my husband and father-in-law Richard flew to Puerto Rico to look at a 44’ catamaran....