Adventures with Bepi

The second day was clear with light winds and blue skies. On reaching shore the plan was to do more exploring. I did a fair amount of walking, from the heights round the isthmus to the end of the Cat Harbor road. I spent most of the day on the boat though. Still worn out, I slept the afternoon...

After a short visit I walked up the dirt road away from the hamlet of Two Harbors, my heart aflame like a burning barn. 52 years old was late in the game to make a great sailor but that day I felt like Shackleton, like Chichester, Slocum, and all the rest. When you reach the top of the low hill...

Provisions, fuel, too much clothing, everything was set. I got the motor running, walked her backwards out of the slip and in one motion grabbed the pulpit, swung the bow out to the channel, and swung myself aboard with the forestay. As I walked to the cockpit her bow came slowly around and soon...

Giving a rough guess I would say this Ericson Yacht Organization could represent a combined million miles sailed and several thousand years of sailing knowledge, and then there is me. Two years and several hundred miles of sailing and I feel like I have barely scratched the surface. When I...