As a 2nd generation sailor, Captain Cory spent his childhood sailing the Gulf Coast of Florida - from the Panhandle to the Keys. After attending college and testing the waters of corporate America, he escaped to the open ocean and found freedom on the decks of traditional oceangoing sailing ships - working his way up the ranks from deckhand to Captain. During those years he transited the Panama Canal, Central America, the West Coast United States and Canada, East Coast United States, all of the Great Lakes and the Caribbean. He sailed across the Atlantic from Puerto Rico to England using celestial navigation and traditional sailing methods - before sailing on to explore Western Europe.