Prelude

Mary and Owen had been really quite ordinary people before deciding to live their dream...he a university professor and she an employment manager at the same place of higher education. They had been together and married for twenty five years, were comfortable first at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, then retired for ten years and traveling quite a bit in both the Caribbean and Mexico. Sailing had been a substantial, but not a major part of their lives. They had always had an underlying desire for the enjoyment of a more extensive sea life and people interaction that a chartering business would bring. But we get ahead of ourselves.