Cruising: BVI Passage
July 19, 2021
Baking at the helm, watching a newly arrived bird eyeing me suspiciously—as if this was his ship, and I was the one who’d just flown
Baking at the helm, watching a newly arrived bird eyeing me suspiciously—as if this was his ship, and I was the one who’d just flown
There is an ocean-sailing science fiction novel I’ve been writing in my head now for some time. It posits a future in which the world’s
Sitting quietly at the bar of a local yacht club, I gaze out over a rambunctious Lake Michigan on a sunny but blustery spring afternoon.
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When a winter norther blows through the Bahamas, the northeast trades can reach gale force as they funnel through the Windward Passage between Cuba and
The first cruising couple I ever met who was sailing an aluminum boat told me an interesting story. They were French—of course. They’d been anchored
February 2, 2020 was a beautiful Sunday afternoon. The temperature was in the upper 60’s, the wind from the southwest at a steady 8 knots—an
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The wind shrieking through the rigging jolted me awake in the middle of the night. It sounded like the bimini was being ripped to shreds.
I am writing this a few days before Christmas in the awful Plague Year of 2020 and am marveling at the great Double Alignment. Can
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