George Kent Kedl

Hi! Call me Kent! I’m a retired philosophy professor who spent many years between 1984 and 2000 living on sailboats with my wife Pam. We had our boys, Jake and Andy, with us during the first year when they were ten and fourteen.

Then we went home to South Dakota for almost ten years before taking off again for another seven years at sea, this time just the two of us. We Ran Away to Sea, is the story of our life on boats.

After Pam’s death in 2009, I thought a lot about our sailing years and how hard they were on her. Writing this book, gathering Pam’s letters and my stories together with the help of my second wife, Linnea, has helped me understand our lives during those years. I now live far from the sea again in Albuquerque New Mexico.

This was all quite a long time ago now, and the world of blue-water cruising has greatly changed, although many of the challenges we faced remain the same. I hope you will find our story interesting.