Falling in Love and Sailing the World

"When Fabio and I first met, I was on vacation and he was at
work. I was en route to Kuna Yala, an autonomous indigenous zone
on the Caribbean coast of Panama, on a solo trip. As it happened,
he was captaining a charter boat there, which offered an
affordable way to cruise Kuna Yala. We met in the dark at 5:30am
in Panama City waiting for the bus out to the jump-off point for
the boat.


We spent just a few days sailing together on that trip, with a
motley crew of travelers, American ex-pats, a Panamanian party
animal named Jorge (pronounced Jor-HEEEEEEY!) and the Kuna first
mate Dino, but by the time I returned to NYC, I was already
thinking to myself, “This Fabio guy has it figured out.”


I wrote to him as soon as I got home, and he replied with an
offer to sail together again, someday. So began a long, strange
correspondence between an urban planner fully immersed in
NYC-living and a former psychologist now sailing boats in a
remote locale, clinging to the mast for a whiff of cell phone
reception.


Fast forward two years, and we are sitting together in Fairhaven
Shipyard, on the south coast of Massachusetts, in a tiny sailboat
that we co-own and have been refitting for the past 6 months. In
the next week or so we will begin to move our boat down the US
coast to warmer waters in Florida.


We finally had a going away party recently that ultimately
convinced the majority of my friends that Fabio does exist and we
are, in fact, sailing off into the sunset..."


Words by Kate Zidar.


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