How it all began...one day spring 2006.

One cold breezey March morning 2006, Maria woke up and decided she wanted to learn how to sail. Having no previous experience she was inspired by Jorgen's tales of sailing in Sweden and Australia as a young lad. Jorgen's motives for learning how to sail were most pure. Living & working in communist Sweden, where the simple luxuries in life often cost an arm & leg, there was very cheap beer to be bought in Denmark ( you've got to love the EEC). Hence young Jorgen along with his sailing pals tackled the brutal straits of the Skagerrak and Kattegat in pursuit of the golden viking nectar.

So starting out on an uneven keel we began to look for sailing courses in the general Tidewater area that work for the both of us. We found that Norton's up in Deltaville offered ASA (American Sailing Association 101 & 103 Basic keelboat sailing & Basic coastal cruising) certified courses and travelled up to Deltaville in late March to check out the facilities. Once up there we liked what we saw and signed up for two courses in late June.

Running over two weekends and was a mix of theory and hands on sailing followed by one exam per course, with at least four hours sailing per day.We sailed a spanking new Hunter 31, similar in size to what we had in mind to eventually purchase. The courses where very enjoyable and we both passed with flying colors.

Now we had a license to sail ! oooh dangerous. Before we decided to purchase a Jorgen came up with a brilliant idea - how about chartering a sail boat a see if we kill each other!!!( in more ways than one)