Category: Sailing
Perhaps This is Fiction
As a grateful offering to all of you, I’m sharing a new story this week. I leave it to you to decide: If a mast falls in a crowded marina, is it truth or fiction? Read More …
The Family of Snipe
This post first appeared on the boats.com blog. Sailors know that summer in Annapolis means heat, humidity, motorboat chop, jellyfish—and no wind. So when a hundred and thirty Snipe sailors choose to spend a week of August vacation there, they Read More …
She shoots, she Scores… GOAL!
Last Friday, I submitted a file (only ten minutes late) that represented almost a year of hard work. Read More …
Guest Post: Where Books Meet Boats
Kim Couranz takes time off from her day job in communications at NOAA to sail with me. This week we’re bringing a new Snipe up to speed, and she took time off from boatwork and reading to write this post. Read More …
Linking it all Together
Thanks to journalist Kristina Dorsey (who has never met me), now I have the link between Olympic sailing and writing fiction: Self-motivation. Read More …
Building a Team: The Result
At the small boat end of the sailing spectrum, not much thought is put into the “team;” most of us just call up a few friends and push off the dock. Read More …
Racing with the Next Generation
This post also appears on the boats.com site as a guest blog. Read More …
Of Books and Boats
Last Friday my two worlds-sailing and books-met here in San Diego. Read More …
Building a Team
“Let’s do some more sailing together,” I said to Margaret last November, over dinner preparations at her house. “You, me, Kate, and Kim. Wouldn’t that be great?” Read More …
Slowing Down, Down East
For me, Maine means getting on a boat with almost no internet or cell phone reception, plenty of food, and easy sails between harbors where the closest company is an osprey fishing for dinner. Read More …
