[sleepdoc]

Hi

When I got married my wife was at UC Santa Cruz and I was working in Salinas. Every day I drove the porsche down highway one past a no name boat harbor with live aboards. I started thinking about buying a boat and moving aboard. I gently pitched the idea to my wife and she tentatively bought into the idea. We looked up and down the pacific coast for about a year before we bought a Hylas 44 in San Diego. We moved it to Monterey and lived aboard for five years. Each weekend rain or shine we took Solace out onto Monterey bay, essentially open ocean. We took her down the coast to the channel islands twice. After five years the lure of going just got to be too much and Sarah, a friend of hers and I headed offshore to Hawaii. After a sixteen day glorious downwind reach we pulled into Hilo.
We intended to stop off in Hawaii for a year or so to pay off the boat and keep going West. It turned out though that Hawaii has been an adventure of its own and 10 years later we are still here and my 914/3.2l is just completed and going through the tunning phase. ( you know weld in a bung for that O2 sensor to get a nice even idle).
Ruby is my 5th porsche. Yeah sailing and porsches go together.

best Mark