{"id":15330,"date":"2011-11-21T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15330"},"modified":"2011-11-23T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T03:33:00","slug":"three-men-sailing-adventure-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/three-men-sailing-adventure-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Three Men Set Out On Sailing Adventure Through The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lee County residents, from left, Christian Colarusso, John Boracco and Max Dornbush will set sail this week for an eight-month cruise of the Bahamas and Caribbean. \/ Lynn Hafele\/special to news-press.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s a formula for adventure: Three Lee County residents with little sailing experience, a Bayfield sailboat they bought on Craigslist for $5,000, limited provisions and a plan to spend eight months cruising the Bahamas and Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Christian Colarusso, 25, John \u201cJB\u201d Barraco, 23, and Max Dornbush, 24, hope to set sail sometime this week from Port St. Lucie aboard the 29-foot Seeker. On Monday and Tuesday, they motored across the Okeechobee Waterway and will depart for the Bahamas after they\u2019ve made some minor repairs on the boat.<\/p>\n

Of the three, only Dornbush, whose previous occupations have included lifeguard, cook and painter, had any sailing experience before this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to sailing camp when I was younger, so I knew the basic principles of sailing,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the truth of the matter is, when I first got on the boat, I hardly had any idea what I was doing. We\u2019re all learning from the ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barraco, a 2010 Florida Gulf Coast University graduate who\u2019s taking a year off before going to law school, got the idea for the cruise earlier this year and found Seeker on Craigslist.<\/p>\n

Before he and Colarusso bought the boat, they decided they should actually go sailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three young men from Florida bought a boat from Craigslist and are setting out on an eight-month sailing voyage through the Bahamas and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[66,100,107,97],"class_list":["post-15330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-boating","tag-caribbean-2","tag-florida","tag-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}