I was out walking off Easter dinner with my brother and we spotted a
large sailboat on the hard in the middle of a field in St. Cloud,
Minnesota, not a usual spot for such a boat. We began to look around and
found it to be a 37' steel sailboat that a real craftman had spent 18
years building in his back yard so he and his wife could sail around the
world when he retired. What a boat, everything new and first class.

As it turned out, they launched it last fall in the Mississippi River
heading south, went a few miles and got hung up on a wing dam. The
builder broke his hand, they turned around, brought the boat home and
put it up for sale. They never even got the mast up....

Capt. Jeff