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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I can remember it as clearly as yesterday, but it was actually in the early 1960s. “Caswell,” he said, “you may think that sailboat racing is all there is in the world. But they don’t.” His bushy eyebrows eased from the frown as he...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I can remember with exceptional clarity the first time I used an electric anchor windlass. I’d just taken delivery of a 35-foot cruising boat that had this magical device and I stood on the foredeck looking at it warily, as I’d heard tales of...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I thought the U.S. Coast Guard had it in for me. Every time I’d go out on a boat test, I’d get pulled over and interrogated after I returned to the harbor. We’d spend a pleasant afternoon sailing around on some new boat, but as soon as we...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
This is a sailing story of friendship spanning two decades, and it makes you realize that, like so many things in life, paths cross and re-cross in the most unexpected ways. It’s about three couples linked by a beautiful shell and an even more...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I was standing on a dock waiting for my ship to come in … no, wait, that sounds like the beginning of a metaphor. Let me start again. I was standing on a dock down in the islands waiting for my ferry to arrive, and idly watching a bunch of kids...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I have to admit it. It’s been gnawing at me for months, perhaps even years. It’s a dreadful thing that I can’t control. I’ve tried to hide it, but when I get around my sailing friends, it seems terribly obvious. I imagine they are looking...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
As a journalist, my e-mail is always overflowing with news releases and announcements of new products, most of which are excruciatingly boring. Some company has changed the color on the handle of its paint brush. Riveting. Another company is now...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I was about 15 and crazy about dinghy racing when I was invited to crew aboard a converted 6-Meter in an ocean race. My task was to tend the running backstays. “Get ‘em snug on every tack,” said my skipper, adding, “because the tree...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
Fifty years ago, I belonged to a brotherhood that consisted solely of Porsche owners. In the late 1950s and into the mid-’60s, owning a Porsche was a form of masochism never mentioned in psychology texts, but we were a small group bonded together...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I have been writing about sailing for more than four decades now, and I was just reminded afresh how the written word can touch people. As a journalist, my work goes into print (or onto the blue screen) and there is usually no direct connection to...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
We were slogging along in the middle of the fleet, which was our usual position and one that was quite comfortable, because we knew all the other middle-of-the-fleeters around us. The hotshots were out in front, of course, and we only saw them when...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
A clothing catalog arrived in my mailbox from Team One Newport, with a gorgeous sailing photo on the cover that caught my attention, although it wasn’t hard to catch since I’d do anything to keep from facing the bills that arrived in that same...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
Trust me on this one. I know bloodcurdling screams. As a kid, I used to go to the Saturday horror matinees, and no scream in the world matches the sound of several dozen 8-year-old girls when the screen flashes a close-up of a blood-soaked monster....
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
It was the final stages of the Inter-Galactic Chinese Checkers Championships (IGCCC) and, to my regret, I was in the tank. She Who Must Be Obeyed was so far ahead that it would take a miracle (i.e., the cat scattering the marbles) for me to even...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
There is a lot of chest-beating going on about the current state of the sailing world. Participation is down 40% since 1997, sailboat builders are folding, regattas are getting smaller and the sailing community seems to be in the doldrums. There...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
As the 2008 holiday travel crunch drifted into memory (or into nightmares for those who endured the blizzards and ice storms that swept the nation) and millions of travelers laden with gifts struggled through airports to get home, I was reminded of...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I like naval architects. I really do. In fact, two of my best friends are naval architects, and when I think about high points in my sailing career, some of the best were spent in the company of the vastly amusing naval architect Gary Mull. But...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
Over the years, She Who Must Be Obeyed has been a pretty good sport about my passion for sailing. She’s endured not getting the lawn mowed because “today is perfect for sailing.” She didn’t get a granite kitchen counter, because the old...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
Let me tell you a little about reflections. There is an indefinable moment in your life when you have a mental shifting of gears and you start to reflect on the past. It comes to some people earlier than others, and it has come to me. Perhaps it...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
An open letter to Mr. William I. Koch, Palm Beach, Florida. Dear Bill, Perhaps I should address you as Mr. Koch, but frankly, you’ve been a part of my world as a sailor for so long that seems too impersonal. I know what you’re thinking,...
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