Greg Buenzli

Greg Buenzli is a Colorado native who spent decades as a software engineering solving complicated problems for other people, only to create the most gloriously complicated problem of his own: convincing his wife that moving their family of five, plus a dog and cat, onto a forty-six-foot catamaran was a “brilliant” idea. After years of dreaming about sailing off into the sunset, Greg quickly learned that paradise comes with some unexpected twists—like emergency Coast Guard calls at 3 AM, the urgent philosophical question of “What if I have to go poo?” during a night watch, and discovering the exact purpose of a nut jiggler during a late-night beach bonfire. His book And Then We Hit a Rock chronicles this epic adventure where Murphy’s Law became their unwelcome first mate, proving that if everything had gone exactly as planned, it wouldn’t have been much of an adventure—or nearly as entertaining for the rest of us landlubbers to read about.