PREFACE: ON GATHERING THOUGHTS

If I could be frank for a moment. Writing is my most fervent passion, writing books to support myself as a self-employed intellectual my most fervent but unknown dream. Consequently, writing is one of my most fiery fears. Enough: I have mixed feelings about writing this blog is all I want to say really.

Trying to write this sailing account from hindsight will be like trying to put back together the pieces of a shattered realist landscape painting. Most likely my reproduction will result in a Picasso. All of the original pieces will be there but the feeling of the painting will be substantially more whimsical and abstract. Perhaps scattered and disconencted. I’ll do my best to still keep it interesting and coherent. But like any recollection of past events, memory will jumble details and chronologies leaving you with a based-on-a-true-story account.