Author Biography
Capt. Marlena Brackebusch grew up in New Jersey and started sailing small dinghy sailboats at the age of seven. After being away from the sea for several years, she resumed sailing in Boston during college. She taught sailing for U-Mass-Boston, as well as several renowned sailing schools around the East Coast of the U.S. and the Caribbean. During the late 1980s and early '90s, she and a friend completed a four-year World Circumnavigation aboard their thirty-one-foot sailing yacht. Since then, she has been teaching sailing for the American Sailing Association, delivering yachts all over the world, and chartering boats in Naples, Florida. She now resides in Naples, where she is owner of Island Sailing, a company dedicated to providing fun sailing adventures. She is a U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Master Mariner, an American Sailing Association Sailing Instructor, and a PADI Certified Scuba Diver.
