About Us

Neither one of us are really keen on talking about ourselves, so we really just want to put

everyone’s mind at ease to let them know that with Jay’s years of sailing experience and

my common sense (Jay has some too, but hey, I’m a woman), we’ll be VERY safe.

Although Amber (21) and Megan (19) won’t be with us the entire trip, they have been very

supportive of our decision and we look forward to the time that they will spend on the

boat. Since both girls live in Ontario, Canada (within close proximity of each other) and we

live in Seattle, Washington, I can guarantee that profits in the phone company will sharply

Pictured here are Jay and Danica at Shilshole Bay Marina in Seattle, Amber in the V-berth

(their bedroom) and Megan (we like to call her ‘Granny’ on the boat) getting her sea legs at

Although our sailing adventure isn’t going to start until July 30^th, we have lots of activities

planned in the next month with wonderful friends and family. Our trip is a dream come true

and a very exciting time, however, saying good-bye is a very hard thing to do as we have

June 26th:             Our last day of work! It's exciting to think about not working but
                             nerve racking when you think about no more pay checks!! We are
                             having an open house at the boat (Shilshole Bay Marina, C47) and invite
                             everyone to come down for a celebration drink and lots of laughs!

July 5, 2003: Sam and Michael finally tie the knot … but we don’t understand why they’re having 2 ceremonies!

July 6, 2003: We’re off to visit Jay’s parents in Arkansas (Danica still has to beat Jay’s Dad at pool!) – we leave there July 10^th to return to Seattle

July 11, 2003: We leave Seattle to fly to Toronto to spend time with Amber and Megan and all of our great friends

July 12, 2003: Another Bon Voyage party with our Canadian friends (yet again, we’ll show Jay how this is really done!). This one is in Kitchener, Ontario … thanks Bob!

July 13, 2003: Amber, Megan, Joel (Amber’s boyfriend), Jay and I pile into a rental car and start driving to New Brunswick (approximately 15 hours). My Mom (and lots of friends and family) live in New Brunswick and my brother and his family who live in Nova Scotia will be meeting us there. We’ll be in New Brunswick for approximately 5 days before heading back to Kitchener. By that point my mother will have filled us with more food and drink that is humanly possible and we’ll have a trunk full of food to feed us for an entire year (and sink the boat!)

July 21, 2003: Back on the plane to head to Seattle to spend 1 week finalizing everything before we head out.

July 23, 2003 :       Meg and Howard are hosting the 'Girls Night' farewell party at their house
                             ... Although there are now more men than women who attend Girls Night,
                             the original alumni refuse to change the name!!

July 26, 2003: One final Bon Voyage party with our ‘sailing’ friends! John and Birgit are hosting the get together at their home (the last invitation to their place said something about bringing our own lamp shade!)

July 30, 2003: We’re off! We’ll be in Victoria July 31^st to spend some time with Danica’s brother Brian and our friend Dale …

Again, these are just highlights as we have far too many plans to list them all and we truly enjoy the time that we’re spending with everyone!

There are a number of incredible people helping us through this journey from John and Lynn collecting our mail, Deb and Ginny handling emails, our parents and families supporting us in our decision, John and Colleen creating and updating the web site and many, many others!