As I have been growing up, I have spent a considerable amount of time on sailboats. Some big, some small. I have sailed pretty much from Maine to Venezuela and back with many stops in between.
On one family trip, during my teen years, we were somewhere in Connecticut, maybe near the CT River. I decided one afternoon I would take our dinghy, which had the ability to become a sailing dinghy, for a sail. It turned out this sail would be one of those “life lesson” things. (more…)