• Finn sailing has been a part of my life for nearly two decades. It has taken me to places I never I imagined I would visit, much less sail a dinghy. After sailing nearly every Finn event since 2000, in the United States and Canada, I decided after eight years to venture abroad to Europe, and then Barbados, for the Finn World Masters, an event that attracts fleets of 150 to 350 entries.
As a young sailor, I’d read and heard reports about sailing venues in Europe, but I never thought I would ever sail in places such as the Isselmeer, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Irish Sea, the Bay of Biscay, Lake Garda or the Caribbean. I was a college English teacher with a mortgage, family, responsibilities. I…