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- 1996 – Spanish Lobsters at Green Island, Antigua
Unidentified Flying Object
Hydro foiling is transforming sailing. From the Vendee Globe single-handed racing to America’s Cup match racing to the ocean-going maxi-tri Ultime class, hydrofoil technology has boosted the speed of these boats to a previous unimaginable level. The wing keel on Australia II in the 1983 America’s Cup was just the beginning. I would have rolled my…
New (?) videos of sailing around the world on a 33-foot catamaran
Years ago, I made videos or more accurately “slideshows” of our circumnavigation, split into 4 parts. My daughter has been telling me to post them to YouTube on my channel. So here are the new/old (?) videos… Remember that these were the days before digital cameras and we could not afford a video camera. Each…
ebook now available
There are some benefits when you have free time at home due to social distancing. For years, I wanted to publish “Sailing Promise” as an ebook, but it only seemed to make sense if I would upgrade the pictures to color, which would take a lot of time that I did not have. My assumption…
COVID-19 self-isolation is familiar
These days remind me of crossing oceans in a sail boat – stocking up on supplies for 6 months, self-isolation from the rest of the world, talking with friends periodically on the radio, having fun hanging out with the crew, eating all the tasty snacks out of boredom and becoming more in touch with the…
After 20 years…
I thought it was time to update the website! Before I never had the time to move the site to a more modern format, so it just never changed. At my last company we used a custom WordPress theme for our website. Everyone said it was easy and powerful. I decided to try it out…
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