I haven't been keeping up here with what's going on. For example - in addition to mechanical work on a couple of the boats in the Sailing Florida fleet of charter yachts - as well as boat briefings with charterers - I skippered a daysail on Wednesday. I had another daysail on Friday. Last evening I had a sunset cruise. Monday I begin six days of teach ASA curriculum from Basic Keelboat Sailing to Bareboat Chartering.
Cathy, meanwhile, is now in Galveston. She'll be in Texas all week for a series of meetings and to give a paper at science conference.
It happened twice yesterday that I fell into conversation with charter guests on two different boats. The conclusion of both conversations was the same. I am very fortunate, and it is my further good fortune to appreciate that fact.
About Me
- SkipperRoy
- St Petersburg, Florida, United States
- In 1987 I left my yuppy lifestyle to go sailing for a year, maybe two. Over ten years later I was still at it, making my living as a Coast Guard licensed professional boatbum. I ran boats as far north as Maine and south to Venezuela. But most of the time, I was driving charter boats among the islands of the Caribbean. By 2000 I thought I'd had enough. I washed ashore in Portland, Oregon to work with my pal Gary at home remodeling. But even there, I continued to mess around on boats - on the Columbia River, Pacific Ocean, the Strait of Georgia and the Puget Sound. Now married to Cathy, a NOAA Branch Chief, I've followed her to St Petersburg, Florida where she is on a six month assignment to help with the BP oil catastrophe. In this blog I will talk about my experience of St Petersburg, of living with a lifelong environmental protection professional in the midst of the nation’s largest ever ecological disaster, and of my quest to continue messing around in boats.
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