Sailing Paradise with an All-Girl Crew
This is a personal story of a life of adventure. If you have ever dreamed of getting out from behind the desk and escaping the rat race, then this story is for you.
It had been my dream to sail Paradise with an all-girl crew. One morning I came up on deck and realized my dream had come true, completely by accident.
Years before, when I was in my teens, I had watched the latest Bond movie. The movie had a great sailing sequence set in the South China Sea. Having lived in a cold, wet northern climate the Tropical setting indeed looked like Paradise to me.
At the time I had a strong sense, almost a premonition that someday that would be me. I would be sailing those same waters. This seemed an impossible dream, as the South China Sea was notorious for pirates and worse.
I became gainfully employed as time passed, and the dream was forgotten. However, plans have a way of working out as least expected.
Years later, while inflation and high-interest rates crushed the economy I sailed offshore aboard our steel sailing yacht Lazy Bones (“The Bones”). We sailed thousands of miles over 20 years and visited dozens of countries along the way.
The cruising gallery has many pictures of me with the all-girl crew and our experiences.
To keep the kitty fed I also ran a business developing computer products as well as several innovative “origami” metal yachts. And that morning as I finished writing and came up on deck I looked off into the distance. I saw islands like I’d seen only once before, in a movie. I realized my dream had come true.
The soaring limestone islands in the distance that looked like impossibly huge ship sails before the wind were not in the South China Sea. They were in Phang Nga Thailand. Without realizing it, my dream had proven true in a most unexpected fashion. I was here, in what I had thought was the South China Sea, with my all-girl crew.
This is our story. Where we went and how we managed 2 decades afloat. Dedicated to those with a dream.
