Jon and Shawna began sailing fairly late in life – in Connecticut in 1997. While we had both sailed before then on small boats while living in Texas, we took the plunge in 1998 and bought a 1979 Mariner sloop named Moondrifter. We sailed all over Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound before moving to Marblehead, Massachusetts in 2000. From there we sailed all over Massachusetts Bay, Buzzards Bay, and Vineyard Sound. As members of the Boston Yacht Club, we began Wednesday night PHRF racing, eventually joining the BYC Race Committee.
For info on Jon’s career background, you can check out his LinkedIn page. Most of Jon’s career was spent in the telecom and information technology fields. His technical expertise is high-end network architecture and design, mostly TCP/IP. You can find Shawna on LinkedIn as well. Shawna is a Project Manager overseeing enterprise software implementations, usually in the Human Resources area.
We really took the cruising plunge in 2006 when we bought Beausoleil in Annapolis, MD. After a two-year refit, we set out in September 2008 to cruise the East Coast of the US. Our plans are to begin a circumnavigation in the fall of 2011.
Hi there,
I came across your posting on a sailing forum. You mentioned that Magnum publishes their networking protocol and you might work on a translation program. My controller is bunk right now and id like to see what i can do with my laptop before ordering a new one. Could you point me to their published protocols?
thanks,
kesten