This is my story of my love for sailboats

Ever since I was a child I loved to be around the water and boats. I lived not to far from a yacht club in Boston and would walk there several times a week to look at the boats and dream of the day I would have one myself. Although my family was very poor, because of our dire straights I qualified for a sailing program on the Charles River, Cummunity Sailing, it is still in business teaching sailing to kids for close to free, great program.

There is such a pleasure in sailing and in sailing your own boat. It is one of those pleasures that maybe you should feel guilty about it feels so good, but you don't.

Most of my life I have been an armchair sailor, but I have managed to own three sailboats. My first was a 16' Cape Cod Cat boat she was gaff rigged and a lot of fun to sail. I sailed her on Buzzards Bay. I learned to sail her off the mooring and back as the motor was worthless.

My second boat was a MacGreagor 26D, the D stood for dagger board. This was a great trailer sailor easy to tow and launch big enough to cruise for a few days, lots of fun. As usual the motor gave me fits.