This is our first backyard boat, Audacious, built in 3 years and launchedin 1974. It was a Jim Brown designed 40' Searunner. The second picture is us in the Marquesas Islands with Madame Clark after a hike to a waterfall through Herman Melville land. We left California in 1975 and sailed to Hawaii and after landing in Hilo and sailing through the entire chain, we sailed to the Marquesas. After three months there, we returned to Hawaii (with engine problems) and sailed Audacious back to California arriving during the Newport Christmas Parade in 1976.. About two years later we flew to Maui and went into the charter boat business on Kaanapali with the CSK catamaran Malama. That went bad (long story) and Doug went to work skippering Aikane (the first one) and Sharon went to work on Anuenue at the Maui Surf Hotel. When that company bought the Kalapaki Kai charter boat at the Kauai Surf Hotel, we bought into the company and came to Kauai to run her. We did that for eight years before Hemmeter bought the Kauai Surf and shut down the hotel to renovate. We relocated to the Mainland in '84 and came back in '90.