Each time I get a bit of info about Mahdee’s past owners, I’m excited. Yes. This time, I’m really thrilled. We’ve wondered which set of owners it might have been who brought Mahdee from the East Coast to the West. Going through the abstract of title, we narrowed it down to one of the two owners after Peter Luce and before the Allen family. Always short on time, I’d not really done a lot of research on these owners. I decided that in honor of Mahdee’s 80th birthday, I’d do a little more digging. I found Ros on Facebook and sent her a message saying “Are you the Ros who used to own the Schooner Privateer?” I hit paydirt for sure. She sent back an email telling me that she, her husband, and little toddler daughter made the trip from New York to California! And, better yet, it was included in a book she’d written about her life.

Of course I went straight to Amazon.com and ordered the book. I’ll be reading it on the airplane tomorrow morning on my trip to DC. I placed a link to it here on our Amazon e-store. Ros sent me a picture via email of Mahdee (then called Privateer) during the trip. It looked to be a grand time and I can’t wait to read about it in her book.