Living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we enjoyed membership in the Milwaukee Yacht Club for over twenty years. We sailed on Lake Michigan on a 30' Morgan sailboat. The sailing season was warm, glorious, and way too short. We were lucky to get four months of reasonably nice sailing weather. When we bought Limerence, our new Beneteau 375 in 1986, we couldn't bear to warehouse it for the winter, so we had it trucked to the beautiful city of San Diego. This enabled us to sail in the Pacific year round. We had family in the area, and with lots of government business in San Diego, the decision made sense. We commuted to our boat every few months for ten years.

Docking Limerence in a San Diego marina put us smack in the middle of the "cruising community." These are people who love adventure, and think nothing of cruising hundreds of miles to interesting places. The cruising lifestyle intrigued us as we planned for retirement. Slowly, we were drawn into a way of living far different than anything we'd imagined in Milwaukee.  We dreamed and planned for awhile, conferred with our families, sold our home, and in April of 1998 after retiring, relocated to San Diego and moved aboard Limerence to prepare for our cruise.

What is limerence?
We fell into the emotional state of limerence after seeing our Beneteau at the Chicago boat show in 1985. Some of you have experienced this thing called limerence. Some of you have not. Some of you feel love. Some of you feel both. Limerence is a deep, aching infatuation. It is love, lust, longing, and a jumble of passionate feelings. It is suddenly knowing that only one person (or boat!) can satisfy your passionate desire. Limerence is intensified through adversity. It is the source of greatest happiness and of greatest despair. Limerence is the name of our sailboat.

Past Lives...
Doug recently retired after 40 years with Johnson Controls, Inc. as VP of government business. He worked closely with the federal government to initiate and implement energy management control systems. Doug is an engineer, private pilot, and licensed general class ham radio operator. Doug's job on Limerence is to keep all systems operating and guarding our energy efficiency, while sailing, navigating, and managing our communications systems.

Judy retired in 1996 after 25 years in executive sales and marketing positions in the staffing industry and the radio advertising business. She has recently studied Spanish and can make passable conversation with Mexican friends. Her job on Limerence is to help sail and  navigate, manage medical issues, and favorite task of all -- invent gourmet dishes prepared on a two-burner Force 10 stove.