High Flight was sold to me in Annapolis in July 1981 by a Stuart Clark,who was from California. He was the third owner. High Flight was bought originally by a flyer who named her and installed the
beautiful poem by that name by the WW II flyer John Magee on a copper plaque on the bulkhead. The second owner sailed High Flight on Chesapeake Bay. Clark took his teen son and wife to the Bahamas over 1979-80, and then placed High Flight in brokerage in Annapolis. While searching for a Mariner, I saw Clark's ad in the Washington Post. Since 1981 I have enjoyed sailing the middle of Chesapeake Bay and restoring the decks and cockpit sides. Have been beached on the Potomac south shore in a violent storm, dismasted after a grounding at Smith Island by an over zealous Tow Boat US captain, and raced in the Turkey Shoot Hospice Regatta (for boats older than 25 years). Now with High Flight 30 years old and me 80 years old, we look forward to more cruises and
teaching young people the wonderful sport of yachting.