Lambert Block

A Sailing Bio:

It’s all about the horizon; and I don’t mean that in a small way. For me, as a mid-western-born boy of ten, the affair began on a family trip to Mexico. My parents fell in love with Acapulco in the early 60’s. They fell so hard, they started one of the first dive shops there (Divers de Mexico) and I discovered salt water and the magic of the horizon. Those were glorious days that went on for years and all that time, the Pacific horizon was out there calling.

I finished my formal education at Boston University, graduated, and married the best sailing girl on the planet. My wife of 48 years (Lucy) was a Vassar-girl then, and the daughter of a nuclear submarine skipper to boot. Needless to say, we were married in Acapulco.

In 1971 we bought our first cruising boat and learned by doing. Back then, there was a discipline to short-handed voyaging, and you learned hard lessons fast when you ventured past the far horizon. Somehow we got through it and after 12 sometimes pretty hairy years, we had our first child in Noumea, New Caledonia. Four years later, while back in the states, we had our second and carried on.

Over the years we’ve owned four good sized sailboats, made a lot of miles, taken our lumps, seen a lot of sunsets, and along the way we managed to homeschool both kids all the way to the Ivy League.

It’s been 45 plus years now. The kids are grown and Lucy and I are still afloat. We sail the California coast now, making weekend runs to Catalina as we both have jobs; me at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems and Lucy at our son’s electronics company in Irvine. Fall of 2020 will hopefully find us heading south again for Mexico and beyond.

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