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Classic Rock, etc.

I play the guitar, mandolin, piano, and harmonica to varying degrees of skill (the more rum you drink, the better I get)

Historical Fiction- I love Bernard Cornwell, Dewey Lambdin, Alexander Kent, Julian Stockwin, Jay Worral, Patrick O'Brien, & Dudley Pope.

Sailing, playing music (the River Bottom Nightmare Band ROCKS), travel, reading, home brewing

I got a later start in sailing than some. I went out on a family friend's day-sailor a few times as a kid, but spent most of my childhood water time in canoes or wade fishing in the Potomac and Shanendoah Rivers.

When I got to college, I made freinds with a guy who had grown up sailing on the Long Island Sound. He talked me into getting involved in a keelboat racing program at the college on a Heritage 37. I took the hook and have been at it ever since (16 years).

I met my wife racing boats, first as opposing crew, then as crew mates when I joined her skipper.

We've done a lot a racing on the Cheasapeake and now down here in the Tampa and Sarasota Bay areas. I was foredeck on J29s for many years, as well as trimming, rail riding, beer fetching, or anything else to get a day on the water. I've done a little bit of blue water racing as well.

I am now trying to learn how to cruise, too. Having spent most of my time on sailboats racing, it can be hard not to spend all the time on a pleasure sail tweaking for speed or tracking shifts. In the end, any day on the water is a good one. I still love racing, but a slow cruise around the mouth of the Tampa Bay is fine, too.

Crew for J24 Caliente, Melges 24 Goux Get Mamma, Catalina 34 Spring Fever, Hook/Kelly custom 34 Grand Illusion, and anyone else who calls in need of crew.

Previously crew for Farr 395 American Flyer and J29s Breakaway, Rhumb Punch, and Joint adVenture

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