Nada Reunion

Dense fog, Covid-19 restrictions and rough seas might not sound like much of a recipe for fun. Th row in a rendezvous with our first two Nadas, though, along with a classically beautiful Maine anchorage, a dozen lobsters and lively, exhilarating sailing, and you have a time to remember.

My wife, Terrie and I built our very first , a 39ft William Atkin “Ingrid ketch,” from a bare hull between 1978 and 1984. We melted down thousands of lead battery posts for the ballast, built the deck and interior and installed all the systems. Th at done, we sailed to Venezuela and back and to the northwest Caribbean multiple times and wrote a cruising guide to the region. On one of these cruises in 1999 and acquired our second , a Pacific Seacraft 40.