Thanks Dad!: Finished cleaning everything out

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Weather is much better. Finished packing up. “V” berth and quarter berth.

Posted by Ed at 11:30 PM

Ed: Growing up in Maryland, my family (dad, uncle, grandfather, siblings) were sailors on the Chesapeake Bay, a beautiful body of water with over 5,000 miles of shoreline and many fun places to visit when sailing. My Uncle and grandfather had a 35 foot sailboat. My dad had a 25 foot. Our summers were spent sailing almost every weekend and then we took longer trips when Dad would take his vacation days. I enjoyed that a lot. As occurs to all of us, as we grow up and get older, “life happens”. Parents’ divorce, remarriages, step-families etc. I moved from Maryland to Illinois in 1975 during my freshman year in high school with my mom, brother and step-dad. Then high school, college, my own marriage and children. The first few years after moving to Illinois, my brother and I would spend a good part of our summers visiting our dad in Maryland and still sailed a lot. After about 1978 though, with the start of my adult life, trips back to Maryland became fewer and sailing during those trips rarely happened. Dad of course continued to sail and even got a bigger boat in 1992, a Contest 29.

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