May 20/2025: Early assessments of the apparently botched departure of the Mexican Navy tall-ship Cuauhtémoc from a Manhattan pier, leading to a fateful collision with the Brooklyn Bridge this past Saturday evening, had it as just a dope-slap nav problem. As in: those dopes should have waited until the tide and current were in their...
May 17/2025: NO! The near simultaneous accidental deaths of accused fraudsters and tech moguls Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain—in disparate locations, of disparate causes—was NOT the product of an evil corporate revenge plot. It was purely coincidence. We established as much in my previous post on the sudden sinking of Lynch’s superyacht Bayesian while at...
May 8/2025: Some of you may be surprised to learn this, but I do have fans. One at least, anyway. Scott Davis, an active sailor based in Manchester, MA, contacted me via this blog site some time ago and worked hard to establish a rapport. We had a long chat on the phone, during which...
