121. We have an emergency!

Credit: Sail Magazine A brief reminder of how I finished my story about meeting up with the three boats who would be part of our tribe heading south. As we drank and traded sailing stories, all of which involved misjudgments, miscalculations, and downright foolishness, which were nearly disastrous (“And that’s when I realized this was

120. Meet our new tribe.

Photo art by Anika Tizliarishvili As we prepared to start heading south with our new tribe which included three other boats, our boat was like a VW amongst Mercedes. The other boats were large and well equipped. Our boat was tiny, but we were hopeful, and brimming with over-confidence. Eclipse was the biggest boat and

119. My courage begins to crumble, but fate intervenes.

Credit: New York Post I am somewhat surprised by the number of stories I tell which are not complimentary to me, but I don’t want you to get the false impression that as an adventurer I was incredibly brave, or someone to admire. I was often a scaredy-cat that got rescued by fate. I don’t