Years ago, I was competing double-handed on a 28-foot boat, with the boat's owner driving. We had a fabulous start during a summer race...

I had the good fortune to grow up in school districts that offered shop classes. As an eager young man, the classes I took, the articles...

There is a popular YouTube channel called Kungfu China Master. The channel posts short videos, a minute or less in length. The content is...

Three weeks of doublehanding from Hawaii to California brought its share of learning. The passage included both good and bad, but a...

Four of us were asleep on the boat, quietly moored outside the Cabo San Lucas harbor entrance. It was midnight. In my sleep-distorted...

We start out young, ignorant, and helpless, with few ideas and believing almost anything people tell us. This absence of beliefs and...

In the 1990 movie, Joe vs. the Volcano, Joe agrees to jump into a volcano to appease the gods on a South Pacific island, after learning...

When I was buying my boat three decades ago, the owner gave me advice that I remember to this day. The advice was given in the context of...

A cupboard door that won’t close, a screw that won’t go into its hole, a boat that bangs the dock while entering its slip, or a team that...

Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University famously describes how a calligraphy class inspired the addition of fonts to...