Category: Boat Living

Grenada, August 2015 At anchor, life aligns. At anchor, our sailboat points her bow into the wind (unless the current is stronger than the wind). The wind whips over the deck and down the open hatches, creating a cool breeze

  Even well weathered sailors get seasick. As the sailboat rocks from bow to stern and back again, and rolls from beam to beam and back again, and yaws round and round around the keel, a sailor’s vestibular system is

Before living on a sailboat, I lived on the thirty-second floor of a high-rise apartment building in downtown Manhattan. I had every amenity a rational person could want: cable internet, central air, a dishwasher, a doorman, a bank of elevators