Sail - July 2018

PHOTOS COURTESY OF

EILOT DALEY

(LEFT AND OPPOSITE PAGE)

JULY 2018

Finding Peace

Tying the knot on a lifetime of sailing

By Eliot Daley

I

began my sailing life as a kid in an 8t El Toro and a 16t Snipe on Lake

Millerton in California’s San Joaquin Valley. I am concluding it as an

80-something in a Rhodes 19 on Lake Damariscotta on the coast of

Maine. So what does this have to do with the hardy, oceangoing sailors

who read SAIL magazine? Well, I’ve been where you’ve been, too, in

between my lake-sailing daysailor days, and I’m here to tell you that there

is life at er saltwater.

My feel for boats came early and intimately, as my father—an architect

and a master woodworker—built a jig around which my brother and I

CRUISING UNDER SAIL

The Daley family enjoyed

many summers of cruising

the Maine coast

Wonderful though

saltwater sailing is,

lake sailing also has

a compelling appeal