Retired from newspapers and television, currently sailing Thelonious II, a 1984 Ericson 381.
What was it like? The idyllic weeks of the Admiral's Cup, Cherbourg rising out of the mist, the beer tent aflame, the violent international competition on the howling Solent, the gradual bonding day by day of a big-boat crew headed, although they didn't know it yet, into a depression so violent the millibars on the weather maps would nearly touch? This video by Gary Jobson, my watch captain, gets close:...
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