MY PERFECT DAY

摘要

I grew up with my father sailing the waters of New England from NJ to Nantucket every summer in the 70's and 80's. When I went to college in Florida in the 90's, dad sold the sailboat and bought a Krogen 42' and I bought another sailboat and started plying the waters of Florida and the Bahamas. This is when the regular Saturday morning calls started to compare boat projects. And I seem to think it was my father's first trip up the Hudson River in the late 90's on the 42' that started him talking about the Great Loop. Eventually, he built a house in Florida with his dream dock in the backyard. He retired a few years after that project, and by the end of 2015, MARIAH our Krogen 52' showed up! We did trips to the Keys and the Bahamas with MARIAH, but we knew something bigger was on the horizon-the Loop, the Mediterranean, or South America were all bantered about by my father. I had interest in all of them but was also still working at the time and he had no committed crew. After Googling about the Loop and learning about the Erie and Trent-Severn Canal systems, I was hooked. I was closing in on a significant milestone in my life and decided I was going to retire and do the Loop with my father. It was on his bucket list and it's a once in a lifetime experience-so here we are!