Patrick:
Thank you for the link! That's great news. I'm happy for Rip. I feel really bad about how it ended with him. He's a very competent captain, and did a great job for many years maintaining Sans Souci when I had the boat in Seattle.
His long-term goal was that he would impress me enough on the Atlantic crossing that I'd want to hire him as permanent captain. Instead, the plan backfired. Rip did his part just fine, and Phil (our Chef) was better than I could have hoped. But, the trip really cemented in Roberta's and my minds that we didn't like having anyone on board except ourselves, and occasional (infrequent) guests.
Don't ask me to justify why it bugs us to have staff around us all the time, but it does... I do think we're somewhat unusual in this. We just like to do our own thing, and wanted a boat we could run ourselves (and, hopefully have one!)
-Ken W
PS I have also met Wolfgang, Rip's captain. I enjoyed his company. He was on a delivery along with Rip and stopped here in Cabo many years ago. We played golf...
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