Greetings:
I am a 75 y/o recreational sailor. I have owned dinghies and small cruisers and am a retired healthcare worker. I was a merchant seamen in my younger days and served in the U.S. Army as a medic. I am an active ham radio operator and fully vaccinated (Moderna).

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I am an amateur radio operator and fairly handy around the house. As they say, if you're not handsome at least be handy. I like to backpack and camp when I'm land bound and play around on the lake with my pontoon boat. I learned celestial navigation back in the days before GPS and still like to practice a bit now and then. Learning celestial gave me an interest in learning a few of the stars and when the night sky is clear I still like to try to pick out a few.

I recently completed a trans Atlantic crossing from Namibia to St. Helena and then on to St. Lucia in the Caribbean.

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I was planning to do a North Atlantic circumnavigation and bought a boat with that intention. She was a beautiful Bristol Channel Cutter in need of quite a bit of maintenance. Regrettably I deferred the needed electrical repairs and she caught fire one night while I was anchored in Port Royal Sound. I shortly found myself overboard in the water with a handheld VHF and a sound full of jelly fish. When the Coast Guard got to me I was hanging from the end of the bowsprit between the fire and the jelly fish. Since I had no insurance, I am now and probably forever boatless. So now to get my sailing fix I need to find berths on other peoples boats.