The one on the water… That’s what I did this weekend. 320 nautical miles, about 58 total hours of sailing. Leaving Thursday evening, we sailed 12 hours to Grand Marais, Minnesota to clear customs Friday morning, then immediately sailed another 12 hours south to Bayfield, Wisconsin. Then we slept. On Saturday, we raced for 11 hours […]
More ›Well, I suppose there’s good news all around: Piers has been alive six years without seriously hurting himself, so we celebrated. Lobster-shaped chocolate cake with us during the week, and then lots of friends and family on the weekend. I’ve been hired to lecture a full-year section of Introduction to Philosophy at Lakehead University for this […]
More ›Of the many – many – different kinds of sailing, solo distance racing appeals to me the most, by far. In fact, if I were a younger man I would seriously consider trotting off to western France or southern England (but France is indisputably the kingdom of this kind of sailing – course au large, as […]
More ›Last night was the first TBYC Wednesday night race, officially marking the beginning of summer for a tiny segment of Thunder Bay’s population – the yacht racers. (Haha! That sounds just ‘proper’ doesn’t it? In Thunder Bay, it couldn’t be farther from the truth – we are about as elitist as any dive bar.) We didn’t […]
More ›Yes, Hawaii… I was skeptical, fearful of overdevelopment and cliches, but I clearly did not know a bloody thing about Maui! I know a little more now, and I’ll share a bit soon enough, on a separate page devoted to it. Yes. Devoted. In the meantime, I’ll tell you that Straight Jacket was painted while I was […]
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