On the Hard, …REALLY!
To begin the tale of what may could have been the most critical of my ocean passages, I need to reset the stage. I hesitantly prepare myself for this task […]
To begin the tale of what may could have been the most critical of my ocean passages, I need to reset the stage. I hesitantly prepare myself for this task […]
This is more of a tirade than a documentary of war. Perhaps it is a plea for help, although, in light of my experience, I despair of that. I am […]
I was sitting in Mabrouka’s salon, sprawled athwartships on the aft side of the starboard-facing “U” like I always do when I watch the big iMac 27 I have mounted […]
Approaching Point Venus, I hungered in doubtful anticipation for a respite from the weather. I’d been stumbling as manfully as I knew how in from 80 miles at sea with […]
I find myself, again, getting into in that place I always get when I get too comfortable in one spot for too long. Like a watermelon pip clenched between the […]
I’ve have at last struggled through the final third of Charles Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle, motivated by anticipation of his accounts of the Galapagos and Tahiti, tidbits of […]
Scott figured the dart would hit him square in the forehead. As he watched it arc in from his roommate’s finger tips he bandied about the various options as to […]
Ach. I could hardly stand it any more. Mabrouka continued to shift giddily about, …rolling port, jerking half-way starboard then back to port, pitching forward, rolling port again, then a […]
What had I expected? I don’t know, but the transit from Galapagos to the Marquesas was both as expected and a surprise. We hauled anchor and motored away from Santa […]
Looking back on it from five months further down the line, the Galapogaen island of Santa Cruz was pretty much a business stop for me. It was early April and, […]