Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

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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 [...]

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Emily fixing a hatch on Faith
My grandpa could fix things.  Oh, he was a little rough around the edges when it came to the craft, to the getting all of the little finesse-type details handled to make something feel like new again.   But when it came to utility, to getting whatever it was that he [...]

//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 [...]