Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

We’re new to this life, and we share apprehension and even fear of the worlds we will come into contact with over the course of our voyage, much of it bred in our American perspective that the world is a scary place.

This becomes a recurring theme: places are special because of the people there. We’re meeting many people in different places, but are yet to find one of the places where they don’t value human life like we do.

Public space, dwindling as it is and socialist by definition is a true asset of America.

Many people around us hold keys to valuable insights, and the only path to those keys is to minimize my arrogance and hope they can overcome their fear of condescending.

//Please feel free to comment.  Today’s post is the  opening chapter to Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home.  I plan on making the book available for purchase in time for Christmas, and need an idea of how many to order.  Please click here to express a nonbinding interest in ordering.

Dodging Doubts and Dodging [...]

//Having worked on a book about our experience during our circumnavigation, I wish to begin sharing that book here.  Please feel free to comment.  Today’s post is the  introduction to Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home.  I plan on making the book available for purchase in time for Christmas, and wish to have an idea [...]

Another American curiosity was brought to our attention from people in every place we visited where it became a topic of discussion. “The Constitution of the United States of America is the greatest document ever written,”

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When we were travelling, we didn’t think too much about the food we were eating.  Oh sure, there were certain cautions we had to mind, like the snail in Southeast Asia that was poison and would sneak into the lettuce and just sit there waiting to be eaten.  But for the most part, food, once [...]

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I’ll make a few remarks on boat design now, the first about the position of the head in relation to the boat.  By the way, the term head, as I understand it, comes from the timber on the old ships called a cat head.  The cat head was a large timber going out both starboard [...]

//I was born two years too late to take part in America’s conflict in Vietnam, but I grew up with Walter Cronkite providing nightly coverage of it.  By age 13, living on Hampden Drive in Lansing, I knew I didn’t want anything to do with what was going on over there.  Those images in the [...]