Tag Archives: sailing

And the Winner is..

…or In Praise of the Small but Mighty And the winner of the news story of the week which brought a joyous tear to my eye is: SeaLeon found after being MIA for months. In second place was a story which brought me a few of those little emotional chest quakes: a young lad has […]

The Beginning and the End

Sailing was not an activity I grew up knowing anything about. Come to think of it, it wasn’t even a sport to us in outport Newfoundland. Sailing was something schooners did to take one where the fish were, and back again. The “Age of Sail” was long past by the time I was old enough to […]