The Wisdom of Weighing Anchor An anchor can save a vessel. Left down too long, it can also prevent the voyage. A good anchorage...
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The Wisdom of Holding Ground An anchor is a promise made to the bottom. It is easy to think of an anchor as a...
The Wisdom of Soundings One of my favorite childhood authors, Samuel Clemens, took the pen name Mark Twain from an old Mississippi river call:...
The Wisdom of Changing Course At sea, you learn quickly that a course is a commitment, not a prison. You set out with intention....
The Wisdom of Keeping Watch At sea, someone must always be paying attention. That sounds simple enough from land. Indeed, it’s almost too simple...
The Discipline of Making Harbor At sea, there comes a point when the wise decision is not to press farther, but to make harbor. ...
The Wisdom of Shortening Sail The summer I was seventeen, I needed to get out of the Texas Panhandle for a while. That country...
Hold Your Line The temptation, when the boat begins to heel, is to do too much. A gust comes across the water. The sail...
The Wind Is Not Yours to Command The wind does not care where you intended to go. It does not consult your plan. It...
Read the Weather Before It Reads You As any observant person who lives along the Florida coast can attest, storms rarely arrive as suddenly...