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A HISTORY OF SAILING

About our Sailing Adventures

1990-2010

Before Vagari

Mark first began sailing as a Boy Scout. He learned on small craft and eventually worked up to larger sailboats. In 2003, Christy helped Mark find his first boat on eBay. She was a Neptune 24 and a perfect trailerable vessel that we were able to first sail in North Carolina on the Atlantic while Mark served in the Marine Corps. Later we moved her to Lake Michigan after Mark’s final contract with the Corps expired.

Mark and Christy married in 2005 and tough years followed. In 2006, we were forced to sell our sweet Neptune. It would take a few years before we purchased our next vessel. In 2010, we rescued a Siedlemann 299 from a shipyard in Chicago after she had been on the dry for some time. We worked to bring her beauty back and named her Reality Escape.

2010 to 2019

Reality Escape to Vagari

Reality Escape was made to sail the Atlantic but wasn’t quite big enough for us. Also, Christy is not a fan of IOR-style vessels and how sailing feels on them. So, in 2019 when a gift from Mark’s mom arrived, we chose to look for a vessel we could fulfill our dreams on.

We had dreamed for years about what we wanted in a vessel and knew that we would need to purchase a fixer-upper to make it work in our budget. So, we started looking for a vessel with good bones and the potential for great beauty. This led us on a trip to Connecticut where we found a neglected Whitby 45 previously named Wisp.

She wasn’t gorgeous (yet) but she was sturdy and had those great bones we wanted. So, we bought her and sold Reality Escape.


459

VISITORS

48

YEARS OF SAILING

220

SQUARE FEET AREA
FOR THE LOVE OF WATER

Our Vessels


COMING SOON

SV Stampede

A 1965 Columbia 50 soon to be purchased for our charter sailing company.

SUMMER HOME

SV Vagari

A 1969 Whitby 45 that we live on in the summers. She is a beautiful classic that we are working hard to restore.

DIVE BOAT AND MAIN LAND TRANSPORT

Velux

A 1985 Four Winns Sundowner 22 to get places more quickly and for easier access to the water when diving.

SAILING DINGHY

Mea Ventus

A 1967 Cape Dory 10 which we are working to restore. Some day she will be our sailing dinghy.

Sailing on vagari quotes

It’s “Adventures with Vagari” not “Lazy Days with Vagari”!

“Bouy selfie!”

“You don’t get to fly the pirate flag until you earn it.”

“Look it’s the tiny bridge.” (Referring to the Mackinac Bridge)

“That was just a fresh water whale.” (Random thump)

“No race?! Let’s go anyway and we’ll come in first.”

“Hey, is that getting bigger?”

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