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ROOM TO MOVE

Cruising experience prior to Loop

Fifty-five years of boating and sailing in the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean; down the Rhine River and over to London and back; down the Rhone River to France, Barcelona and further to Marbella in Spain; from Mallorca to Valencia; up the Moselle river in Germany; Croatia; St. Martin, St. Barths, Martinique and St. Lucia.

Boats owned

Stämpfli waterski boat, then a Princess 32, afterwards a steel De Groot 40, then, since 1998, an Altena 55, all of them in Switzerland. We have Sea Ray 270 SLX in Florida in front of our house, and then the Marlow.

Length of Loop trip in months and miles

We spent three to four months each year during three years on the Loop, traveling back and forth between the United States and

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