New Members Sanford Morse & Sally Coulton
We are Sandy Morse and Sally Coulton, and we own an Eastbay 38 HT named American Flyer. We live in Annapolis, MD, on the Severn River and we keep the boat on a lift at the mouth of Chase Creek.
Sally and I are both retired, she from marketing and me from a career in legal publishing. I have a 50T USCG Captain's license and I spend a lot of the warmer months doing day charters and giving sail and power boat instructions on all kinds of boats. I also have an Internatinal Etchells, which I race both in the Annapolis Yacht Club's Wednesday Night series and on weekends. I also do a lot of Race Committee work for the Annapolis Yacht Club and the Storm Trysail Club.
During the less-than-warm months I retreat to my woodworking shop to build furniture or work on boat restorations. Recently I completed restoring a 1955 Chris Craft Sedan Cruiser and a 1973 Chris Craft Lancer. And, for the first time, both Sally and I have taken up golf, with a vengeance. I wish I had known about this terrific sport a little earlier in life. I also write and am an avid digital photographer, mostly of boats and sailing.
A more than passing obsession with boats began at age 6 when my father and I built my very first boat , a 14' runabout, from a Custom Craft kit. I grew up on New York's Finger Lakes, skiing and fishing on various Custom Craft, Chris Craft, and Penn Yan boats, and racing on Lightnings, Snipes, and E-Scows.
I have owned many boats since: sometimes as many as five at once, but never less than one. Here are a few of my favorites: Jake, a J-35 racing sloop that we raced very successfully for 10 years; Cody, a beautiful C&C 36 racing sloop that we watched being built in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario; Satchmo, a 1959 42' DCFB Matthews that kept me awake with worries many a night; Obi Wan, a gorgeous 26' Fortier that I restored; Sagamore and Niccolo II, the two Chris Crafts that I restored; and Cayuga, hull #1 of the Back Cove 26 with which I once came home to Annapolis from Block Isalnd, RI, in one day.
We plan to take the Eastbay north for the summer months, and south for the golfing months, but at the moment we are somewhat house bound by our three aging, but still wonderful Portuguese Water Dogs. The only scheduled trip, at the moment, is a run to Block Island for Storm Trysail's Race Week in June.
You asked for a picture, so, being an amateur photographer, here are several to chose from. I obviously have far more of our boats than of ourselves. Sandy
