Who Are Rod and Elisabeth? We are Rod Lambert and Elisabeth Lehmberg. Elisabeth is from Bremerhaven, Germany, and Rod is from Monterey, California. In our youth we each had dreams of living on the water and sailing long distance. [...] In the mid 1970s, Elisabeth and her boyfriend converted a wooden lifeboat into a proper cutter-rigged sailing boat, complete with cabin. Elisabeth learned to sail on this boat, and together they sailed the North Sea coast of Northern Germany, made passages through the Kiel Canal into the Baltic Sea and explored the coastal islands of Denmark. About this same time, Rod was learning to sail in El Toros at a sailing school that once operated out of Berkeley's Aquatic Park. After returning from four years in the U.S. Navy, he bought and sailed a Santana 22 while attending school in Humboldt County, California. Careers, responsibilities, relationships and realities came along, and the sailing dreams gave way to other things. Elisabeth went on to become a bio-scientist, and in 1990 she moved to Berkeley, inspired by the book "Ecotopia". Rod became a civil engineer on the California north coast. In December, 2001, Elisabeth booked passage aboard a KLM flight to Amsterdam, transferring to Bremerhaven to go visit her mother for Christmas. Rod was also on board this flight, and would transfer on to Vilnius, Lithuania to spend the holiday with friends there. We had been assigned seats next to each other, and over the course of the next 11 hours fell in love, we and have been joined at the hip since. Saying our good-byes, we exchanged in Amsterdam, and upon returning to the U.S., Rod received an email entitled "Proximity". This email posed the question "Shall we, once again, put ourselves in close proximity"? We were married in Honolulu a few months later. ........and we had an inspiration for the name of a boat that would come along in the future. Very early on, it was evident that each of us were involved in activities that didn't include the other very well. Rod had been racing Formula Ford and later his Porsche, while Elisabeth was involved in endurance horse racing. Wonderful activities each, but we each wanted something we would do together. Remember,we were "joined at the hip." Inspired by the dreams of our youth, by some sailing colleagues, and by a very small apartment in Marin County, we decided that we would sail again. We would find a suitable boat, move aboard, and prepare to realize our old dreams. So, we did. This is where you come in. Welcome on board.