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The New Olympic Order (2/1/2015) - Were there any competitors in the ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, presented by Sunbrella, who remember a time before coach boats? Probably not. Coach boats, as in this coach’s village alongside the Schoonmaker Center at the Olympic Sailing Site, Miami? Someday, perhaps, there will be sailors who don’t remember a time before the ISAF […]
Numbers, Numbers, Numbers (1/31/2015) - . . . . . . . . Numbers are cruel. At ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, presented by Sunbrella, 716 sailors came to compete in ten Olympic classes. Five days of qualifying races ended Friday. Now ten boats advance in each of those ten classes. Allowing for […]
Where You See the Hill (1/30/2015) - Or, where you see the hill for how high the hill is. Which would be along about now. After Day Four of five qualifying race days for the double-points Medals Race, there are those who can get to the top, those who might, and those who, thank you, gave the ISAF Sailing World Cup […]
Spelling P E R S E V E R A N C E (1/29/2015) - When the challenges hurt your brain, when the world around you is cold and your body is catching up to that, when you’ve committed yourself to the obsessive quest for an Olympic medal and there are times when you wonder if you should have just had yourself committed — welcome to this world. […]
what IS that secret sauce? (besides grit) (1/28/2015) - The difficulty of these races so far has done more than any number of easy wins could ever do to validate the reputations of a few people who keep themselves at the top of their fleets. Time after time. No matter what. Walk a tightrope? Dance . . .on a tightrope? What is […]