About 5 years later I would move to Las Vegas and take the cat with me… but my new wife would not let the Hobie live in our garage and the Las Vegas sun is not kind to fiberglass, so I sold her.

I continued to try to sail when I could and slowly, for me, racing small boats gave way to relaxing on larger boats.

Several years passed and I bought a 28′ Columbia in Long Beach with the intent to dock it and use it in the San Diego Harbor. This was my first ‘delivery’ I guess you could say. I’ll admit a few things went wrong… but that is how you learn. We got her down to SD and I would travel from LV monthly to spend time on her. I didn’t race anymore, I had no where I wanted to be, other than on the water, sailing.