It was a dark and foggy night... The night didn't start out that way, though. I knew fog was threatening because I had seen an insidious...

To bib or not to bib? Was my question as we headed towards the course last night. The seabreeze felt like it was dying, dropping from...

And June 25th turned out to be a BEAUTIFUL night on the water, despite being preceded by a nearly 100 degree day with no wind, and an...

2nd night on shield 245. Finally a race with decent wind and it wasn't freezing. June has been staunchly holding on to the fog and rain...

Night two. A new boat, with no on I had sailed with before. On the sail down to Gould Island we practiced some gybes, and I was shown a...

The first time on a Shield. The weather had been bitingly cold the Tuesday night before my first Wednesday night shields racing with...

So apparently I turn 29 today.  And, it is an absolutely terrifying notion.  I was ten years old when I decided life was good. I starred...

Panama.  We came into Bocas Del Toro an hour before sunset, after a week at sea, and it felt as if the islands were pulling out all the...

What do you think about when you think about love?  Is it those big moments, the hallmark card ones, the chapter headings of successive...

(A selection of the following journal entries was published in a story for SAIL MAGAZINE in 2025. Below are the comprehensive and...

Boy, I don’t think you quite get it yet— I’m essentially a glorified bum.  Was what I thought but didn't say when he mentioned that he...

I was talking to a friend via text recently. She is living in Chicago, the place that I spent three months this summer. We spent three...