Author: john.hagen12

It is said that the pessimist complains about the wind, an optimist hopes it’ll change, and a sailor adjusts the sails. It’s actually a little more complicated than that as you might expect for the sailor. It is the weather that is the most important factor when sailing south. Several months ago I subscribed to Read More

Getting a 34,000 pound 51 foot sailboat transported to the east coast is no easy task. The first question that comes to mind might be why would anybody want to do this? I have spent hours dreaming about the warm blue waters of the Bahamas. Imagine a warm breeze filling the sails with dolphins playfully Read More

A sailor’s dream is to sail south to Paradise. Images of swinging in a hammock in a gentle breeze while watching the sunset from the front of the sailboat gently bobbing at anchor in a secluded harbour surrounded by palm trees is what appears near the surface of my mind. This is how any journey Read More

Sailors are big story tellers so I am always looking for a good sailing story. I have watched hundreds of sailing videos and every once in a while I come across one on YouTube that is memorable. What makes a great sailing story? It is a true story You can imagine something like this happening Read More

The image of sailing in a warm breeze with the sun gently bathing bikini clad beauties lounging on the foredeck listening to sailing songs and sipping on margaritas while reading romance novels may have occurred on someone’s sailboat, but I must confess rarely seems to happen on mine….. However, I keep bringing up these images Read More

After losing the first boat in a storm 240 miles off the coast of New Brunswick, I once again approached Pat Sturgeon of Pat Sturgeon Yachts. We went through the options of looking for another used boat. There was an almost new Hanse 505 in Abu Dabi that was fully loaded and looked beautiful. Ileana Read More

I had just come out of the Department of surgery meeting. It was about 5:45 PM and I was getting ready to go home. I am currently chief of surgery at a community hospital in Toronto and the meeting had just wrapped up. The familiar ring of my cell phone went off and I glanced Read More