Monthly Archives: December 2011

Stars at 100

The wildest sailboat ride I ever had was not on a wing-powered catamaran. It was on a “simple” Star. What Tom Blackaller once told me about sailing in an Olympic Trials on San Francisco Bay— “It was like going into a fire hose that’s shooting 40 knots.” and “I just sailed it under.” —crossed my [...]

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William Faulkner, Sailor Man

© Floating around the net Being on a Southern sojourn, I counted it high time to renew acquaintance with my friends Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner— And so it came about that in a five-pounder of an anthology I found a piece by Faulkner that was new to me, an autobiography of sorts [...]

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