The liveaboard

LYNN MEISSEN may have set a world record for living continuously aboard a sailboat, but she‘s not interested in discussing the potential honours of 40 years aboard her classic wooden schooner Guayacan. Now living in her home port of Morro Bay on California’s central coast, she’d rather reminisce about her life on the water, including her adventures in Central America, the Caribbean, and Britain – she’s sailed almost 50,000 miles through her life.

Lynn first learned to sail in 1971, when she and her boyfriend signed up to crew on a to the South Pacific; the boat was completing a five-year circumnavigation. Etched in Lynn’s memory from that early sailing experience are the Marquesas, Panama, the Galápagos, and Hawaii. It was on that trip she realised that living aboard was a dream she was determined to make a reality.