September, 1998 By Dodge Morgan There is absolutely no single definition of heavy weather even as we can, of course, define a hurricane, a storm, a whole gale. There are no practical heavy weather standards to guide us on the way up to the obvious Force 10 lulu. Heavy weatherRead More

August, 1998 By Dodge Morgan I believe there is no experience as deeply satisfying as a sea passage under sail. One enters a world of absolute independence, a world dominated by the forces of nature and empty of the baggage of our human institutions. There are no organizational charts orRead More

May, 1998 By Dodge Morgan I have this nightmare, a wacky, “Help! Help! The paranoids are after me!” kind of nightmare. It goes this way: I am about to drop my mooring pennant for a sail on Eagle when suddenly a guy with a badge shows up and orders meRead More