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Warren and Erica, co-owners of the sailing channel WEsail, grew up miles apart in Colorado ski towns — Warren in Steamboat Springs, Erica in Winter Park — and recount how their paths converged and eventually led them to sail the world. They met at a Jack Johnson concert during a summer series at Winter Park Resort, spent years in a slow-burn courtship interrupted by Erica's three-year move to Europe, a relationship with a French man, and a stint managing a chalet in Zermatt, Switzerland. Warren issued an ultimatum at a rooftop bar in Denver: if she returned home single by 30, give him a chance.26:04 She did, they reunited at a birthday party in Steamboat Springs roughly ten years before this telling, and married when Erica turned 30, honoring the handshake deal.29:47 Warren financed the sailing life by buying a 1,600-square-foot Denver brick house built in 1913, adding an extension to 3,200 square feet, and selling it when the neighborhood peaked.30:36 The sailing dream itself was sparked on a Mexico beach vacation when a sailboat passed while they sat in hammocks drinking margaritas.30:57 The proposal happened in Steamboat, at the same chairs where this story is told, roughly eight years prior.1:27

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