Surprise delivery

In my early twenties I was very fortunate to be in a position to buy my own small racing keelboat. I raced and loved that boat, berthed in Westhaven, and I still consider those two years the best of my life.

I sold her when I became pregnant. But 13 years later, with four kids and a non-sailing husband, I thought I had consigned boating to a chapter in my almost forgotten past. One of the last times I raced, I won the sportsmanship prize at