Pat’s Cat REINVENTING MYSELF In March of 1996, I lost my husband and partner of 25 years. I continued to run Metal Concepts, Inc. and our horse farm for the next 5 years, but in 1999, a man I met online talked me into buying a sailboat and going cruising. He lived in Maryland and had been sailing for 40-odd years. One day, he called and suggested I look at the boats on PDQ.com. It was a comprehensive website with a tremendous amount of information about sailing catamarans. Never having sailed myself, except as a guest a few times, I had many questions. After a few days, I called PDQ’s 800 number in Canada, and by chance, Simon Slater, the son of the PDQ designer answered the phone. After more
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