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Bill began sailing at the age of six or seven on Lake Ontario in Upstate New York. By age twelve he was racing as a crew on 14 ft centerboard boats and by 14 was skippering as well. He spent his junior high and high school years on Galveston Bay in Texas racing a Star with his father as crew. His first cruising boat experience was on a 28 ft sloop sailing another 17 year old friend on the Canadian side of Lake Ontario for a week. After graduating from Tulane in New Orleans, he moved to Houston and purchased a 23-foot sloop that he kept in Seabrook Shipyard Marina. In 1976, Bill went on his first bareboat charter to the British Virgin Islands with his wife and parents. That began his love of the cruising way of sailing. Since that initial BVI trip, he has chartered in Thailand, Australia, St Vincent, the San Juan and Gulf Islands, and seven more trips to the BVI. Bill plans an annual trip to the BVI with his sons, brothers, nephews and friends. In 2005 he crewed on the delivery of a Beneteau 523 from Rota, Spain to the BVI

Bill has a USCG license and is an ASA instructor for Basic Keelboat Sailing, Navigation, Bareboat Chartering, Basic Coastal Cruising and Advanced Coastal Cruising.