In 2001, Ed and Vivian Steele sold their business and started looking for something to do for a few years. “My wife suggested we go sailing,” Ed says. So, after searching for the right ride, the couple bought a 53-foot Amel Super Maramu ketch and, with three weeks’ experience, set off on a six-year cruise around the world.
Returning in 2009, they left the sea, bought a “brace of motor homes,” as Ed puts it, and traveled on land.
Three years ago, it was back to blue water. “We are out of sequence here,” says Ed, now 70 and a retired geophysicist. “You are supposed to progress as follows: sail, powerboat, motor home, rest home. We just got confused and needed another boat.”
In 2015, the couple bought a Leopard…
