In my own words: how I found myself on FEARLESS for the Marion to Bermuda race in 2015… At this rate I’ll get to the video of the race itself just before I’m headed to Bermuda next year
Introspective Bermuda Return
Coming back from Bermuda was a very different experience. Instead of twelve we were six. Although six is light crew for FEARLESS we made due. It’s tough to overstate the added comfort of having one’s own bunk to sleep in. When you go below you needn’t search for somewhere to sleep you just climb back […]
FEARLESS?
I’m lying on the deck, tethered on, mummified in foul weather gear. I am trying to close my eyes and rest but keep staring up at the mast, rigging and sails waving across the sky. We just finished tucking in our third, final reef and rolling up most of our blade. But we’re still racing, […]
Seventeen Point Seven
This season is really turning out to be epic. I knew I had signed up for a lot but it’s far more than I had expected. And then I signed on for a week-long delivery up the east coast that turned out to be epic. Here’s a few seconds from the delivery: It wasn’t all […]
“We were only three but we three were sailors”
It’s a moonless, pitch black night and I’m battling quartering seas trying to maintain course. The only lights within view are on our boat, some airplanes in a holding pattern for Logan airport, the occasional fishing boat working traps and the stars. The compass and GPS lag make it impossible to use either to keep […]