Wind Song 2004-2005

The Adventures of Wind Song
– Bahamas 2004-2005 –

Wind Song at anchor in San Pedro Harbor
Los Angeles, CA, USA What is this all about?

Many moons ago, in February of1986, there was a youngish married couple named Lane and Lynn living in a small California bungalow. Both worked as professionals in the SoCal aerospace industry, and Lynn was 8 months pregnant with their first child. As is so often the case in modern life, their choices seem to have led them to a pass where they had more money than time -- although it must be said that in the LA area, a lot of money goes a little way.

Lynn's demeanor was well suited to professional life, but Lane chafed at its bonds and yearned for adventure. One day this yearning, which had been nicely restrained by the simple fact that he did not believe his bonds could be broken, broke free of them when he read these simple words in a magazine about cruising under sail:

"People don't understand how simple going cruising really is.
First you say you're going to go. Then you go."

Lane's world wobbled on its axis for a millisecond or two, and he saw that the simple fact that had been restraining him was in fact a simple fiction, and that it had just vanished. What there was left to do was persuade Lynn that going cruising was a good (or at least tolerable) idea. How that happened, and the nine years that followed, including two years cruising with two small children aboard a 40 foot cat ketch called Daybreak, need not concern us here, as they have been addressed elsewhere (Sailing Toward Daybreak - see link below). What does concern us is that during that period, from November 1992 to September 1994, from Los Angeles to Washington DC via the Panama Canal, through nearly 10,000 nautical miles of sailing, many of the places they saw remained in their minds and hearts and begged for revisit but only one demanded it. The Bahamas said to them, "If you do not come back here before you die, you will have failed in life. And bring your children."

A planet said that. When a planet speaks, mortals are wise to listen. They listened. And after looking at each other for confirmation, they said, "We're going to go."

Ten years later, they went.

Through this web site, you can come too.

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Who we are

Sailing Toward Daybreak - a voyage of discovery (book, 285 pp, RTF format, 1 MB)

Origin and description of Wind Song

Bahamas cruising plan 2004-2005

Sep 28, 2004 -- Wind Song leaves the Pacific Ocean and heads for Florida!

Sep 30, 2004 -- The Beach Reporter newspaper does an article about our trip

October 1, 2004 -- We move out of our condo

October 3, 2004 -- We're off!

October 8, 2004 -- We fly to Florida, meet Wind Song, and get ready for launch