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...
May 23/2024: I did try to enlist crew to help sail the good ship Lunacy home from St. Thomas, but I will admit I didn’t try very hard. A good part of me wanted to do this singlehanded, fractured wrist or no. I had previously done some solo passages between the W’Indies and Bermuda, and...
May 29/2023: I originally had high hopes as I plotted to liberate Lunacy from Palmetto Bay Marina on Hilton Head Island to sail her north toward home waters. Long-range forecasts per both the ECMWF and GFS weather models showed strong rivers of southerly wind blasting up the East Coast, and I speculated I might even...
