Hello everyone

This is all new to me. I am 49 Y/O, about 5 years away from retirement. It is a life long dream for me to set sail to freedom, but where do I start? My wife has some long forgotten experience, we want to learn how to sail, so we can buy our own boat one day an leave...We live in southern caifornia.

Are you looking for a speed deamon beach catamaran or something to cruise around from place to place whilst drinking wine? It sounds like you are after the later ... this might not be the best forum for advice regarding cruising cats. Most of us around here sail / race smaller beach cat varieties...."go fast" type mentality.

If you contact me directly I can get you started in Multhull sailing in SOCAL. aj.stevens@att.net

Take a look at http://yachtworld.com/ . Used advanced search to narrow down what's available in SoCal.