I learned to sail in my Dad's boats. He had a small boat similar to a Sunfish, and a 14' boat.
In January 1985 Dad rented a 48' ketch in Hawaii and took the whole family sailing. That was Great Fun J
When I was 6 Dad said he would buy me a small sailboat (similar to a Sunfish) when I could swim half a mile. Naturally I worked really hard on this, and I managed to succeed when I was 7. I did a lot of puttering around in the bay in front of the house at Minchumina. When I was older my sisters and I sailed it and a similar boat they had all the way around the lake.
In June of 1986 I bought a 26 foot Reinell sailboat named the Red Rover. As it needed a considerable amount of work I brought it to Fairbanks for a year. The next summer I moved the boat to Valdez. Thus began my love affair with Prince William Sound. Since that summer I have been down there every summer.
I did a huge amount of wandering around Prince William Sound with the Red Rover. This turned out to be an ideal boat for this kind of exploring; easy to handle, slipped into and out of small places and (for me anyhow) comfortable to live on.
In the spring of 1992 I bought a 42 foot trimaran sailboat named the Acrux. The first summer I couldn't do very much sailing with the new boat because I didn't have a motor for it. The next summer I put a motor mount on the boat and got a little more mobile. I took a couple of short trips, but did not have time to get much farther out than about 35 miles out. In the summer of 1994 I went on several trips. The first one was somewhat disappointing for a number of things went wrong and instead of making it down into the Gulf of Alaska I scarcely made it 20 miles out. So instead of spending 5 days sailing south I hung out in Sawmill Bay. (The problem was a wire than hung half way up the main mast.) During the summer of 1995 I took several more trips. And a fairly problem prone trip in 1996. This turned out to be the last trip I took it out on for several years, because the fiberglass de-laminated from parts of both outriggers. During the summer of 1998 I repaired one of the outriggers.
Some of these adventures with the Acrux are in my logbooks.
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