April 4/2026: A part of me thought this would never happen. When I first met Francis “Nim” Marsh III in Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain, during Jimmy Cornell’s America 500 rally in 1992, I was amazed when I found out he was 20 years older than me. For if anything, he seemed younger. And as...
March 8/2024: I’ve been AWOL on the boat for the past month, with an antique laptop that can’t wrangle posts here anymore, so I’m afraid I’ve been neglecting this space. I’ll catch you up on my own adventures in just a bit, but first we need to discuss a couple of recent events that strike...
BACK IN THE LATE NINETIES when I quit my job as an associate editor at Cruising World, Elaine Lembo was hired to take my place. We've been good friends ever since. We usually have furtive encounters in vans running between BWI Airport and Annapolis in October and swap all kinds of juicy gossip about sailing...
