Beth has been "messing about in boats" for most of her life ... in the early years it was one-designs (she and her brother, Rick, sailed a Comet) and later considerably larger cruising boats.
Coastal cruises, with her husband Richard, have included numerous trips along the Eastern seaboard, including the ICW, where they perfected the art of "achievable cruising" ... cruise for a week or two, leave the boat, go home, come back a month or two later and continue on. Other cruising adventures have taken them to Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Mexico, the South Pacific, and the Mediterranean. They have shared many of these experiences with three superb crew members ... their now-grown children Jason and Amanda and their sea-dog Molly.
Today, they own a Leopard 40 sailing catamaran in Tortola, BVI and a Glacier Bay 2690 power cat based in Rye, NY.
Beth and Richard are firm believers in "going" even if it means taking the office along ... and technology has made that not only possible but quite easy. They are also committed to wonderful food along the way ... on board and ashore. Provisioning, they've discovered, may be the most useful of all cruising skills and they seek out the best resources at every landfall. Along the way, they've visited well over 2,000 marinas (most several times) as both cruisers and reviewers.
In addition to being one of the primary writers of the ACC's Guides to Marinas, Beth is incubating the Water Lovers website (land-based travel guides for people with a passion for the water) and the Healthy Boat series (holistic approaches to crew lifestyle and vessel management).
She is also a new media designer and has produced video documentaries and multiple media projects in the areas of complementary and integrative medicine, holistic living, ecology, peace-making, technology, and food and health (including the award-winning "Children of War," the Mellon-funded "Students at Work," and "EarthFriends"). She created and developed the first, and largest, full-text and image database on complementary medicine, "Alt-HealthWatch," and is an advisor/consultant to firms focused on healthy living and integrative medicine.
Beth received a Doctorate from Columbia University in Educational Technology and New Media, Masters degrees in both Health Education (with a Nutrition focus) and Ed Tech from Columbia, and a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University.
She is a Certified Health Education Specialist and a graduate of James Gordon's Advanced Mind-Body Professional Training Program and the Natural Gourmet Institute for Food and Health. She is also Past President of the Board of Trustees and current Honorary Trustee of Wainwright House, an educational institution focusing on the integration of body, mind and spirit, Boating Writers International, and Society of American Travel Writers.
