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Saké Barrel Divers  The mariner brings a spirit of work and focus to any job. A fisherman brings faith. Together, these traits form a citizen of the oceans. In the middle chapters of world nautical history, specific characteristics from the tenacity of the Japanese fisherman/sailor have profoundly …

I offer advice on sailing in the Caribbean during hurricane season. There are plenty of bad pieces of water like the Bay of Biscay,  Bay of Lyon, the Mona Passage and more. How to prepare you boat to sail away from the weather event and what to do if you are hunkering down. Bad weather avoidance. L…

Fugitives I have found over fifty years of sailing around the world that fugitives of all sorts gravitate to boats as a way of hiding from authorities. I would know. I was a fugitive from myself yet not wanted by the law but so emotionally disconnected, my head put out a warrant for my heart.  Ther…