Last night I listened to Tom Ehman speak about the “new” America’s Cup, a live video link with Kenny Read aboard Mar Monstro having rounded the Horn and now in the relatively calm South Atlantic.<\/p>\n
For me, the selling of the America’s Cup is a little like when hollywood knows it has a bad movie it needs to advertise to try to boost the gate.<\/p>\n
It was a moving moment to listen to Ken say the Southern Ocean had beaten him into submission. That he would not do this race again. Nature is relentless and without remorse.<\/p>\n
Today is a lunch meeting of the New England Six meter class.<\/p>\n
Palm Sunday and April Fool’s somehow don’t seem to go together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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