You know what they say about first impressions. Based on that we might just have met our new best friend today.   The current owners had invited us onto the boat for sundowners and to have a first look. “Of course”, we had said.  At 5p we meet the owner Jeff at the dingy dock and…

I am a planner and go-getter. I believe in making things happen. But I also believe in giving life room to unfold in ways you hadn’t planned or even foreseen. “Let life take you” is what I started calling that mindset, coaching the kids, mostly Anika who is as much of a planner and control…

  Ever since we had the opportunity for a 6-months sailing sabbatical back when the kids were pre-teens, it has been on our minds.   It all started with a fateful birthday gift. Karin gave me a book by a Swedish author, a father of a young family of four, a sailor, who together with…