Rob of s/v Astraea
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| Gender | Male |
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| Introduction | Most of my life has been associated with the sea. I learned to sail at the US Naval Academy when I was a midshipman where at the age of 17 I had my first sailing lessons during "plebe" (freshman) summer on small wooden sailboats without engines. Over the next four years at the Naval Academy as part of the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron I sailed and raced beautiful 41 foot Luders yawls throughout the Chesapeake Bay. After graduation from Annapolis I spent 21 years as a Surface Warfare Officer, retiring at the rank of Commander (O-5). During those 21 years I spent 14+ years at sea and traveled throughout the world on a number of naval warships in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, the Meditteranean, the Caribbean, the Persian Gulf, literally travelling every major area of the world. After the Navy I entered the corporate world in the field of Information Technology. In 2005 my new career took me to San Francisco where I renewed my long relationship with the sea by buying Astraea, my Cheoy Lee 41 ketch. As of December, 2008, I retired early and began preparations for extensive cruising beginning in October 2009. |