Catamaran Sailing Lunch Cruise   This catamaran sailing cruise made for the most wonderful afternoon with my family! My wife and her family are from Holland and they recently flew over here to join us for our 1st wedding anniversary which we celebrated together at Wiggins Pass State Park. While they were here, our Dutch visitors asked what they could do for a fun, memorable experience that everyone could enjoy.  I suggested my favorite pastime: a cruise aboard Old Glory with me and Skipper Bud.  We met up later at Salty Sam's Marina, in Fort Myers Beach, and departed our berth around 1100, bound for Sanibel Island. Although the wind was light (as usual for our area in the afternoons), we had a wonderful sail across San Carlos Bay and the weather was absolutely glorious.  Skipper Bud brought the boat in close to the beach just to the west of the fishing pier where we were able to drop our anchor in about six feet of calm water.  We had brought a lunch of sandwiches and fried chicken, along with cold beverages, and enjoyed it up on the bow trampoline lounge area with the Sanibel Lighthouse behind us and the beach dead-ahead, making the perfect scenery for some great pictures!  This was the perfect day on the perfect boat with family and friends. I enjoyed it so much that wrote all about it!  Read the article by Kristoffer Stewart published in MULTIHULLS Magazine!  

My First Sail Aboard Old Glory When my wife surprised me for my 35th birthday in May, 2013, with a handwritten "ticket" for a sailing cruise, I was thrilled beyond words. ...But in response, I told her: "We have to find a catamaran!"   I've been a catamaran fanatic since I was boy. I grew up sailing on a lake in Texas aboard my father's San Juan 24 on the weekends. But after accompanying my parents to a big boat show after we had moved to Florida and seeing all the big cats there, changed the course of my life forever. Years later, one of my first marketing jobs was Editor of MULTIHULLS MAGAZINE, published by the The Catamaran Company in Fort Lauderdale. There, I learned all about their benefits of stable, flat sailing and ample lounging space. Catamarans just seemed like the perfect way to relax and enjoy life on the water.  Even before my stint at The Catamaran Company, I marveled at the lifestyle of leisure they promised in the full-page print ads I always saw in Cruising World and Sail magazine and dreamed of the day when I'd get the chance to live like that.  My wife was sold on the idea of finding a catamaran for my birthday cruise, and we queried Google for "sailing catamaran Fort Myers" and found SAIL SWFL, the Old Glory, and Skipper Bud.  What a great time we had!  Though this was by no means my first sail aboard a fine cruising cat, but it was the by far the funnest.  We had a great sail and saw a splendid sunset later that evening on the way back to our berth...and began what would become a lasting, dear friendship with the boat's captain.  I'm happy to share my experience and the pure joy that it gave me in an article I wrote for the magazine I used to be the editor of... Read the article by Kristoffer Stewart published in MULTIHULLS Magazine!