How we became sailors
«I just met this amazing guy at Makerspace who was trying to fix a sail.They are docked here with a boat that they built on a farm and I am helping them with some IT problems. And guess who is sailing with them to Scotland?” Hmmmm. I wonder. Less than two weeks later, my husband was off sailing on a homemade boat – Sailing the Farm – to Scotland. A week later, he was back. And he was smitten. This was in 2015 - a short time after my last blog (How to marry an entrepreneur) ended. He soon afterwards bought a small Junker to learn to sail around Flekkerøya and then Grimstad once we moved there. Then he discovered “Find a crew” and set out on a few trips with strangers, including taking a boat from Brazil to the Canary Islands. He signed up for a trip from Chile to French Polynesia and another from Hawaii to Alaska. This was in 2020. And then everything changed. The pandemic prevented both of these trips from happening and the Junker was no longer enough of a challenge. ...