Anyone who loves sailing or fantasizes about cruising to faraway places, should follow the blog of Fred Roswold and Judy Jensen Wingssail. Fred and Judy were neighbors when Griz
and I were living aboard at Seattle’s Shilshole Marina. Griz and I enjoyed the sailing lifestyle and became reasonably decent cruising sailors, but sailing for us was secondary to our pursuit of a life close to nature and away from people.
FRED AND JUDY ARE SAILOR’S SAILORS. In Seattle, they raced their Serendipity 43, Wings, weekly in all seasons. For the past 12 years they’ve been cruising the Pacific and still particpate in regattas wherever and whenever possible. Their blog not only has great photos, but Fred’s descriptive posts include good technical information, a realistic view of the vagaries of cruising on a budget (working along the way), and beautiful philosophical prose about his passion for sailing. This from his June 2 post:
“But even after a thousand times, 10,000 times, each day on the water is a thing special, a day important, a day which restores life into a sailor.
We must have it. Or we die. We die anyway.
But at least this way when we eventually come to our end we will have followed a compass of our own devising; the only compass which we know how to follow.”
