Hi, We are Martha and Al along with our child, S/V Journey. We have owned Journey since August 2004, and have been steadily making updates and improvements to her. She is a 1977 Islander 28, a fine cruiser for the two neophyte sailors we were back then. While we are still finding our "sailing genes," we have done a lot of one and two week cruises around the Sound, over to Ocracoke,Oriental, Beaufort, and of course "the bite." We usually refer to these as our little "great circle route." We are always looking for folks to go cruising with, or to meet up with along the way when we are out and about. We try to sail pretty much year round, sometimes it seems that home scheduling gets in the way - exspecially during the colder months. (Funny how that happens)