It’s been three months now since the Lahaina fire and the unthinkable happened to one of our favorite places in the world. This is really hard to write but keeping Lahaina in our hearts I think also means remembering Lahaina. The first time I ever visited Lahaina was in November 2013, exactly 10 years ago. I solo sailed s/v Gemini over to Lahaina Harbor to visit my friends Jill and Bern and their family who lived in Lahaina. We had a wonderful time for Thanksgiving and they told me all about the Halloween parade that Lahaina takes seriously every year and that I just missed. After a nice visit they sent me off with a big plate of Thanksgiving leftovers for the 50 mile sail with the trade winds back to Oahu. I was so impressed with Lahaina that I wanted to learn more about this special place and sail back with more of my friends, which I did many more times over the next several years. Read more here…