Chapter One
Hello, welcome to my sailing blog. Kismet is my 1988 Passport 40 cruising sailboat. I bought her in June 2025 with the intention of starting a new life afloat. Things started slowly, there was a lot of differed maintenance to catch up on and I just didn't have much free time while working full time. I expected it to take me a year to get here ship shape but after a quite unexpected death in the family, I decided there is no time like the present. Two months later I quit my job and seven weeks later I began my journey. Some people may remember I set out on Christmas morning with the intention of staging at Rudy Inlet in Virginia Beach and then doing an overnight around Cape Hatteras the next day. There were a string of events that ended that attempt, mostly, I was just feeling too tired to safely do the 32 hour passage. I headed home to Gloucester Point to fix a few things on the boat, look for crew and rest up. January third, I w...