Moving into your new place in Pensicola is first. When you have time find a sailing club or marina that rents boats there.

Decide if your wife wants to try it and if anyone gets seasick.

While I was a rifleman and hunter I was asked to go 1/2's on a cottage on an island in Long Island Sound that came with a Sunfish sailboat. I was in my late 20's then, lean and active. The Sunfish looked like sissy stuff but it became a challenge to go to windward, navigate and work the tides.

Then cruising on the 25', then 30', then 35' sailboat became a primary activity and my wife took to it as well. Now in senior retirement we have sold the boat and cottage on the water and kept the one in the woods.

We sailed some of the North East coast of New England on vacations and belong to yacht clubs.

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