Question: When is the shortest path between two points a zigzag?  Answer: When sailing into the wind. Two miles off the coast of Texas we were cruising at a brisk eight knots on-board the Mayan Mystress, a 20-year-old catamaran whose better days were ahead of it....

This is exciting! My first blog ever. I don’t consider myself a writer. Just a guy with too many thoughts and a dream. So what to write about with so many memories? Some I really don’t want to think about. It was a Sabbath afternoon at Rend Lake, and it was a...