{"entry":[{"id":"30559249","hash":"bf7c5752a6f1cc56eb802ae6ea0777bb","requestHash":"rickrewshusband","profileUrl":"http:\/\/gravatar.com\/rickrewshusband","preferredUsername":"rickrewshusband","thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf7c5752a6f1cc56eb802ae6ea0777bb","photos":[{"value":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf7c5752a6f1cc56eb802ae6ea0777bb","type":"thumbnail"}],"name":{"givenName":"Rick","familyName":"Bailey","formatted":"Rick Bailey"},"displayName":"Rick Bailey","aboutMe":"Since childhood I've been a sailing and boating enthusiast.  I grew up in Florida and had the great blessing to live on lake-front property.  It seems as though a great deal of my growing-up years were spent on or in the water.  I swam, dove, skied, sailed, fished, skim-boarded, and played ten months a year.  The other two months were a little too cool for being in the water, but I often fished then.  My dad and I went on fishing trips to Key West, Marathon, Homosassa, East Lake, St. Johns River, Haulover Canal, Titusville, Mosquito Lagoon - and of course, on our own lake at home.  When near the Gulf or Intracoastal Waterway, I saw cruising sailboats and they inflamed my imagination.  When I wasn't on or in the water, I was reading adventure books set on the water.  Sailing and water sports were in my waking dreams and contributed to poor school work in grade school - too busy day-dreaming.\n\nMy adult life arrived.  Years of study, work, family and responsibility flowed by.  Almost on a whim, I bought an 18 foot day sailor - and I was hooked.  We've had several boats since then - including a ski boat when my boys were more interested in speed than going slowly.  We now have a Watkins 27 coastal cruiser (though she's pretty hefty for a coastal boat) that we've owned since 2003.  We sailed her in Jacksonville, FL, then trucked her up to Maryland when I got stationed in Washington DC.\n\nWe love sailing the Chesapeake, and we love time spent on the boat.  I happen to like all the maintenance aspects of boat ownership as well, so owning an old boat fits me: lots to repair and maintain!   Now retired from the Navy, I have a lot more time to tinker with the boat and sail the Bay.","emails":[{"primary":"true","value":"rick@ruthbaileyart.com"}],"urls":[{"value":"http:\/\/ruthbaileyart.com\/","title":"Ruth's Art Website"},{"value":"http:\/\/ruthbaileyart.wordpress.com","title":"Ruth's Art Blog"},{"value":"http:\/\/middlebaysailing.wordpress.com","title":"Chesapeake Bay Sailing Blog"}]}]}