Sail Further

As a former SF Bay Area sailor I was very excited about the prospect of the next America's Cup being held in SF (when Oracle-BMW won back the Cup this year). Do you think the race will be held in SF? Vote in the poll widget in the sidebar... The argument in favor: http://goo.gl/mqInY The argument against: http://www.latitude38.com/letters/201003.html (the letter is: "say it ain't so")

Visiting these French islands makes me think of time spent in France:

For everyone stuck in the eighties; the view of English and Falmouth Harbours should be easily recognizable from Duran Duran's music video for their song Rio (filmed in Antigua):

I saw this T-shirt in a window in St. Kitts. It's wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to start...

This is the impressive fort guarding the harbor entrance of Christiansted in St. Croix. It's comforting to see that the US military is using the latest in defense technology to keep us secure down here. Our tax dollars at work.

Some highlights: Sailing with twin headsails (we tried many sail combinations to stay dead downwind)... A whale swam with us for about two hours... First Dorado Las Palmas to St. Lucia Official Time: 18-days, 8-hours, 35-minutes

"Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago... Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. -Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel