About Us
Take your pick: sailing bums, ‘living the dream’, vagabonds, boat people, or thrill seekers: whatever you choose is fine with us!
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| John and Nancy in Marigot Bay, St. Martin |
We do have a land home in Lancaster PA, and we enjoy spending time there with family and friends. But truth is, ‘Larking About’ has an allure that we find hard to resist. Both of us are sailors and adventurers at heart, and we hope that this blog will give family and friends some insights into why we intend to keep on sailing until we are too old and frail to handle it.
Nancy started sailing on a nineteen foot O’Day Mariner when she was in her mid-teens. “Dad wanted to start sailing with us kids, so he bought a day-sailer and a book ‘How to Sail’!” And that is how Nancy and her four siblings learned sailing, at North East, MD, at the top of the Chesapeake Bay. Later she acquired and skippered for twenty four years her beautiful Bayfield 40 “Adventuress” on the Bay.
In the Nineties John started an annual ‘boy’s week’ cruise for his son and father and a couple of friends, chartering in New England. In ‘97, he bought an Island Packet (IP) 350 - the original ‘Larking About’ - and in ‘99 an IP27, ‘Skylark’. He swapped them in 2000 for Larking About, a like-new four-year-old IP40 which he found in Holland, Michigan.
Nancy and John love coastal cruising, but are equally enthralled with ocean sailing. By 2011, Nancy has ten ocean passages, while John has sailed twenty three, including five as crew learning the ropes before he took Larking About to sea. (We define ocean passages as five days or longer.)
Sailing is by no means our entire life, but this blog is dedicated to our sailing adventures.
John & Nancy Knight
Aboard Larking About, Ordnance Island, Bermuda
June 12, 2011
