Aeolus is a 1970s Cape Dory 27. After COVID I refitted her and sailed her from New York down the East Coast and across the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas: the Abacos, Eleuthera, Cat Island and the Exumas. She is in Georgia now, waiting for an electric motor. This is the log: passages, repairs, what I cooked, and the saxophone on deck.
So what does a person that wants to start sailing do? Learning to sail is a good place to start. When i grew up in Italy I learned to windsurf at the hotel Sol Palace in San Gineto Lido in Calabria, and from there small keel boats were an easy transi
I always liked the sea but i never considered myself a sailor. Growing up in Italy, I used to windsurf and sometime, when the occasion presented itself, I would rent a Laser or another little boat In addition to the windsurf and some day-sailing I ha