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Inspection
I’m reading Ellen MacArthur’s book, “Taking on the World”. She is arguably one of the greatest sailors around. It’s her story of her life leading up to and including her amazing race in the Vendee...
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Are You a Tweaker?
When I used to race sailboats in Puget Sound I got to sail with a lot of different kinds of people. Some people who like to sail are pretty laid back. The Jimmy Buffet types. You know, “The wind will...
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I’m Helping!
I used to race with a really experienced crew on a J120 (a flippin’ nice sailboat). We were all very hardcore about our racing. Many on the crew had been racing sailboats since their childhood. These...
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Failing Fast
“Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen How’s that for a weird quote? I heard it the other day on the...
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Push v. Pull: A Leadership Story
It hadn’t been a very good race. In fact, it wasn’t an understatement to say it had been a disaster. To Peter Smith it was embarrassing just to show his face in the clubhouse afterward. He was at a...
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How Does That Feel?
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” -Bertha Calloway I was out racing for the first time in a long time this weekend. I was rusty and sailing on a boat that I was unfamiliar...
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