Sailing Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/sailing Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:16:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 San Miguel Island Map http://toursmaps.com/san-miguel-island-map.html http://toursmaps.com/san-miguel-island-map.html#respond Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:33:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=264509 “Every September on the full moon, ” he announces, “I sail to San Miguel Island for the weekend with a group offriends and students. Would you care to join us this year? ” “Sure, ” I say without much pause, “I’d love to. ” Swells and exams come and go. Nearly every weekend I compete in a surf contest somewhere on the California coast. The last one of the season is the NSSA Nationals and I manage to snag the win. I ponder a path toward professional surfing, but decide that my competitive thirst has been quenched. I much prefer

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/san-miguel-island-map.html/feed 0 Our Sailing Destinations http://toursmaps.com/our-sailing-destinations.html http://toursmaps.com/our-sailing-destinations.html#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:12:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=265019 Thankfully, Taputu, who helped me guide Swell into the haul-out cradle, has taken to me in a fatherly way. In my deepest moments of frustration I go to him. Mostly using sign language, he figures out how to help. Some mornings he even tosses a chocolate croissant up into my cockpit. As the midday heat burns, the noise stops for one short hour while the workers gather to eat in the shade of a dry-docked boat. Taputu insists I join them daily. I sit with my French-English dictionary, noteblog and pen, picking words out of their conversations and vegetables out

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/our-sailing-destinations.html/feed 0 New To-Dos and a Silver Lining http://toursmaps.com/new-to-dos-and-a-silver-lining.html http://toursmaps.com/new-to-dos-and-a-silver-lining.html#respond Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:40:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=264864 As Swell pushes out the pass into the open ocean, I feel reborn. I’m going on alone, because my heart knows it’s better for me this way, even though it would have been safer to take on this enormous stretch of the remote Pacific in a caravan with the Octobasse. I’m abuzz from following my truth the kind of empowering rush that follows a soul-serving decision, logical or not. If Shannon was right about God favoring the brave, I will have the powers that be on my side. I pull up the sails and settle into a smooth beam reach,

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