Home again and awake. I think I just regained enough brain function and strength to properly thank everyone for all of the support, good wishes and positive energy sent out during this long quest. It meant a lot to me, and I know it helped bouy Lisa, too. Chalk that...

I have been in the throes of packing and crisis management for two days, but I wanted to share some of the last minute preparations. We will be loading up the boat and car this evening to head down to Beaufort, N.C. to get ready for launch. Weather looks favorable for...

There is nothing like the smell and feel of a crisp new sail. Sure, we convice ourselves that old Trusty is a lucky piece of cloth that has carried us to glory and will again. But that speed comes from familiarity with the cut, the practice time over various condition...

I have always told my boys, all four of them – and myself, too – that it’s not about the gear. And what I mean is, that conviction, determination, preparation and sacrifice often decide the outcome of our pursuits more than the bike we are riding, the shoes we are wea...

Night sailing has always been one of my favorite things. It feels quiet, eerie, peaceful, dangerous, thoughtful, exciting, comforting and mysterious all at the same time. It’s like that old drill of sailing with eyes closed, only the blinders don’t come off. The soun...

So I set up the compass on Insomnia today, the brand new Laser from Shoreline Sailboats that I hope will carry me from Beaufort N.C. to Annapolis Md. I carry a GPS unit from Magellan, an Xplorist 510 that helped me set the world record last year, but I still rely on t...

So I took Insomnia out for a little 20-mile test spin around the Middle Ground lighthouse in Hampton Roads today  and less than a mile from Old Dominion Univerity found myself in the middle of a pod of about 15 to 20 dolphins, many of them just kids playing around in...

Back in June and July of 2014, I set a world record for nonstop distance sailing in a dinghy, traveling 283.5 nautical miles (325.6 statute miles or 534 kilometers) up and down Chesapeake Bay over 86 hours. This, despite the intervention of Hurricane Arthur, as it bore...