billie at the tiller

i think it started when i was taking an environmental course in vancouver sometime in the late 80's. the class went out on a fifty foot ketch and i said to myself, "paula would love this." well it only took twenty years but when she took the tiller on that little mcgregor on west lake it was clear that i had been right. not that being right is what it's all about. that was in sept. 2008. we spent the next ten months studying, researching, web searching, talking and dreaming. this summer past we took a five day cruise and learn course from cooper's yachting in vancouver. billie went despite a broken foot and scored ninety percent on the written portion of the test.