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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
Somewhere near the middle of the Atlantic I realized my world was right again. Quetzal was slaloming before a feisty trade wind, skidding down rolling seas like a Gold-medal skier who’s had a bit too much to drink, in control but making it...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
Somewhere near the middle of the Atlantic I realized my world was right again. Quetzal was slaloming before a feisty trade wind, skidding down rolling seas like a Gold-medal skier who’s had a bit too much to drink, in control but making it...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
Even with the best of intentions I am not the most prolific blogger on the ocean. Somehow several months and nearly 5,000 miles of pretty amazing sailing have slipped by with nary a blog entry. Sorry about that, lets catch up, at least a little...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
I have done a lot of sailing in the past 12 months. I’ve logged more than 9,000 miles aboard my Kaufman 47 cutter Quetzal. I’ve sailed from Turkey to Gibraltar, zigzagging my way around the Mediterranean. I’ve crossed the Atlantic, completing...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
#1 Hers, Mine, Ours, All Aboard! It was late afternoon when Quetzal sluiced between the massive breakwaters of Puerto Sherry, a huge marina complex just across the bay from Cadiz. We were finally on the other side of the Atlantic. My sixteenth...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
I am sitting below, wishing for the 1,000th time, that I had not pitched the table when I replaced the mast last year. It seemed like a good idea at the time, especially because I had trimmed the table with the delicacy of a Russian midwife, with a...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
The search for the Fountain of Youth was not going well. The sailing, however, was about as good as it gets aboard Quetzal. We were flying, blasting before the stirred-up trade winds on a deep reach. The GPS routinely flashed 10, 11 even 12 knots....
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
Today I am writing a new boat review. I have written a lot of these over the years, more than 100 I think. And although at times I struggle to find the right tone, the right adjectives, I always take the task seriously. You can’t hastily knock off...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
Okay, I know, I didn’t keep up my part of the blogging bargain, as many of you have so kindly reminded me. I am sorry, really. But you should know that I started to blog, or started the blog, verb, noun, whatever, I swear I did. But then another...
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