A fast paced look at the cruising life style. Retired Hollywood cameraman and sailor Bob Steadman skippers his 36-foot sloop, “Bettie,” from Los Angeles, down the west coast of Mexico and Central America, through the Panama Canal into the Caribbean and on to the Bahamas with plenty of shore-side stops along the way. "Bettie" is based on a Cascade 36 hull. It was custom molded for Bob by Yacht Constructors in Portland Oregon back in 1978. Four years and lots and lots of man hours later Bob splashed her. "Bettie" has a raised freeboard that allows for a flush deck design.