Scott Barbano grew up in Brant Beach and sailed for most of his life before heading to Tufts University in Boston. At Tufts, he was the captain of the sailing team; then he graduated and went into the working world.

“I found myself in this awkward place, one in which it was difficult to get back into sailing,” said the 28-year-old Barbano, who works in Philadelphia as a gas turbine engineer. “I graduated college, didn’t have a lot of money to get a boat, or much time to sail one.