April 12/2026: It’s a good thing I decided to attend this year’s PAYS Yachting Festival in Dominica (March 21-27), otherwise no one might have noticed it was the festival’s 10th anniversary. As it was, I almost didn’t notice myself. Originally labeled as Yachtie Appreciation Week, the week-long event was conceived by Hank Schmitt, an old...
Here's one interesting weirdness about this tragic Mike-Got-Mauled-On-His-Boat tale: initial reports, which basically came verbatim from the victim himself, had the location all wrong. First it happened in Martinique, or in Guadeloupe, then finally it was St. Martin. The Aussie Sail-World site (which I believe originally reported the location as Guadeloupe, though they seem...
