Word: sailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decide to do this? I've always sailed. Football season had come to an end, and I was looking for something else to do. I had just read Robin Lee Graham's Dove, which is about a 16-year-old guy who set out to sail around the world in 1965. It's an amazing adventure story, and that kind of gave me a desire to get out there...
...have second thoughts before you set sail? Not really. I just wanted to rush into it. It was really busy when we were getting the boat ready to go. We were working 16-hour days for four months. I finally got out there into the Pacific, and it was a pretty crazy feeling. I was alone for 23 days in the first passage to Hawaii. (See photos of an eco-voyage to the seven continents...
...where I was in the ocean. If I was near the shore, I had to worry about fishing boats, local traffic and shifting winds. If I'm in the trade winds, it's pretty much like doing whatever it is you do at your house, because you set the sail and don't touch the line for three weeks at a time. The wind comes in the same direction for months. When you're doing that, you get your eight or 12 hours of sleep. Make food. I had a blog going on my website. I'd read...
...either way, upon graduation, the onus is upon students to decide what our education means as a whole—and to realize that, far from being some kind of grand fortress as its end, a Harvard degree is just one of many strange, blinking lighthouses we will sail past on the way.—Juliet S. Samuel ’09 is a Social Studies concentrator affiliated with Eliot House...
Crab Heaven. If you've never cracked open a Chesapeake Bay blue crab, pick up a hammer. The Five Gables Inn and Spa in St. Michaels, Md., is offering a Spa and Sail package that includes a two-hour sail, a one-hour massage for two and a certificate for a dozen blue crabs and a pitcher of beer at a local restaurant. If you can go midweek (Sunday through Thursday), the rate is $570 for two nights, including continental breakfast; on weekends, the rate goes up to $770 for two nights. 209 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels...