Paul Lake began sailing as a boy with his father, a Naval officer, in 20 ft. wooden sloops in Narragansett Bay. He moved to the West Coast after high school and soon bought a used Hobie Cat which he sailed for several years through the surf and into Los Angeles Bay near Topanga Beach in Malibu. After moving to the Houston area, Paul decided it was time to get some formal training in the art and science of sailing larger boats and took our BKB 101 course here at Bay Area Sailing in 2003, after which he flew to Florida and bought a fast and seaworthy Catalina '34 which he sailed back to Kemah and still keeps on our docks today for personal sailing as well as mentor classes and skippered charter. Since 2003 Paul has, along with chartering sailboats on both West and East Coasts and Canada, logged over 5000 miles in Galveston Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and the ICWW visiting every major port between Ft Meyers, Fla. and Port Aransas, TX. in almost every sea and wind condition imaginable, often single handedly. He has also been active in the racing circuit taking a 3rd and 2nd place in his division in the 2009 and 2010 Harvest Moon offshore regatta, a 172 mile race from Galveston to Port Aransas. In the Spring of 2009 he qualified for certification as an ASA instructor and has taught for us regularly since then, achieving high marks in competency and customer satisfaction. He is currently working on his USCG Master's license. In Paul's non-sailing life, he retired as a high-profile Nasdaq institutional equities trader after twenty years of good luck, bought a ranch, built a house, went on to complete a BA in Philosophy from UTA, and completed his course work for a MA in Humanities at the University of Dallas with which he went on to teach Philosophy, Logic, and World Religions at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, TX. as an adjunct professor in 2007 and 2008. He is married with three awesome children and lives in West University Place near Houston where he is very active in that community.