Physicists get that earth might not be flat kinda feeling, the real deal on the class warfare gig, and Latitude 38 says something very interesting...
I've currently been researching a bunch of places we'd like to sail to when it comes time to leave the Caribbean and it's a lot harder than you'd expect. Having internet access and a cornucopia of information on the world at my fingertips you'd actually think it'd be a whole lot easier.
Part of the problem, of course, is we want to go off from the same old same destinations and there is surprisingly little information on routes and locations that are off the "normal" cruising routes simply because most cruisers don't go off the beaten track.
Those intrepid cruisers that do go places not served by such things as cruising rallies and suchlike don't seem to write about it very much in the yachting press (or, just maybe, the yachting press has no interest in printing such accounts because it is harder to tie in advertising sales to places that do not have bareboat fleets). On the other hand, maybe those cruisers who have gone hors piste simply think, if you want to sail the Ultima Thule, you're better off finding it yourself...
As a surfer and climber I understand the idea of keeping special places on the low down... A long time ago some friends and I did a pretty amazing alpine big wall climb that was so special that we never even considered writing it up for a climbing journal when asked, because, in some way or other, that would have made it that little less special.
Listening to the Bilge Pumps
So it goes...
