The skills you learned sailing in milder circumstances may not save you when the wind piles you against a lee shore
All At Sea – Fate? Destiny?
Adventures in Coastal Living – Soddom and Gomorrah On the Atlantic
A Lobsta Dinner I'm not a great fan of "Lobsta"; don't hate it. But don't love it.In 1965 I was a waiter at the old Poland Springs Hotel. I carried a thousand platters of lobster with drawn butter into the main dining room. The trays filled with lobster leaked brine all over my waiter's monkey …
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Old Hand
Age can bring wisdom, but it just as often brings a fixity of opinion. And a fixation is a block to creative thinking and change.
Horizon
Perhaps the only advantage of standing a morning watch was the sunrise over the horizon. Possibly saltier sailors than I could contradict me, but there seemed both an infinite sameness and a similar degree of variability.
Under The Weather
Under the weather was how I felt whenever the Cap'n decided he wanted to sail on a cold breezy day with a lot of spume and whitecaps. He felt flush with the excitement of the ketch heeling over with all sail set. I merely repressed my feelings of dread that he'd sail us under a convenient swell. But of course, he never did.
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