Welcome to A Sail of 2 Hearts We’re Doug and Mary. We live on our 1997 Bavaria 46E sloop in…

Expectancy versus expectations.

When we bought Cassiopeia we decided not to change the name. We liked calling her “Cassie” and felt like the name…

We’ve referred several times on here about our friends, Jamie and Behan Gifford of S/V Totem (www.sailingtotem.com). Their blog is…

This blog is ostensibly a sailing blog. That’s not really true. This blog is an attempt to reveal and express…

Here are some resources that we have found valuable as we’ve researched how to do something and sourced solutions. Nashua…

Father’s Day weekend in June 2016, we were spending the weekend together on the Catalina (Daring Greatly) at the marina.…

Here’s our addition to all the other lists of books you’ll find if you go searching. I decided to limit…

We bought our first sailboat, S/V Whisper, a 1983 Catalina 36 (hull #31) in March 2015. We decided if we…

We purchased Cassiopeia in August 2016. However, she has a history as all vessels do. Here’s what we were told/understand:…

My introduction to sailing occurred in the summer of 1979.  I had graduated from college the year before, got a…