Free Sailboat Rides Offer Wellness to Souls in Need

Free Sailboat Rides Offer Wellness to Souls in Need
Beth Cole, left, a volunteer for Soothe Our Souls, leads a yoga session aboard the sailboat Magic on July 3, 2022. Greg Locke, center, and Dennis Carey, right, follow along. Soothe Our Souls is a nonprofit providing free sailing trips for people facing health and wellness challenges while also providing healing experiences, such as a yoga, on board. Angelica Edwards/Tampa Bay Times/TNS
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TAMPA–When captain Dan Peretz found out his best friend, Art Nicholson, had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2011, the two did what they had always done. They went out for a sail.

They took Peretz’s 41-foot yacht, the Phoenix. It was the same boat Peretz and Nicholson had sailed on for three decades, the boat where Nicholson and his wife, Nina, had exchanged their vows in 1977 and spent their honeymoon.