We arrived in Miami, Florida in 2000 after working and sailing in the Caribbean and ultimately sailing the South Pacific to New Zealand where our son Justin was born on New Years Day (International date line made his claim to fame as being one of the first children born in the world in 1999). With our new family we decided to sell 33 ft Topaz and head back to the States to start our next adventure…citizenship, careers and family. We knew when we arrived that we were planning to buy another boat and set sail again in the future. Our initial timeline was 5 years. 20 years later we are finally off the dock.

I created this dream board in 2000. Ten years later we bought Shenemere which happened to be a Beneteau similar to the boat pictured here that was randomly cut out of a magazine…Believe!