hey killoggs. i still read you sometimes between trips to russia and saturn. the rest of the time i read old books translated from spanish into english and back into spanish again. only parts of that are true.
what is true is that i joined a sailing team. so far we have been in two races. the first one was around vashon island from tacoma. it snowed a lot during that race. the second race was from tacoma to seattle and back. we are not very good, but turns out, there are not a whole lot of very good sailing teams that subject themselves to the conditions we race in for fun. if they are any good, i suspect they race in competitions with monetary rewards. probably in warmer climates. we have only lost one person overboard so far, and we actually did manage to get him back on the boat before he died of hypothermia. shortly before that happened, one of the team members learned that he gets really really seasick when the boat is headed into the wind. i was fortunate enough to be upwind of this person. all in all though, it is a pretty good time. the key is to get waterproof footwear. no matter how cold and wet and miserable you are, if your feet are warm and dry, you know in the back of your mind, things could be a lot worse.
