A little background. I'm a girl who grew up in the land locked midwest, whose only sailing experience prior to moving west was an afternoon messing around with a Sunfish on a lake. As I recall, I spent a lot of time in the water that day. Peter, however, lived for a time with his family in Sydney, Australia, and fell in love with sailing there. So the seeds were sown and it was only a matter of time after we got together before we would become boat owners.

The first was a Lido (14'), which we co-owned with Peter's brother (Simon) and his family, and sailed on the Willamette River in Portland. As time passed we grabbed onto a Laser and then two Toppers for the kids when the local sailing club was selling them cheap. Our daughter added to the collection with a 12' wooden sailboat she built. But eventually we moved up to our 26' C&C, co-owned again with Simon's family. She was the yellow sailboat, Zenobia, moored in Harbour Marina on Bainbridge Island in Washington. What followed were 9 years of wonderful sailing experiences in Pudget Sound, the San Juans and the Gulf Islands.