Ego and money...

Not good at all, Percy Sledge RIP, and about connecting those dots...

Since we were speaking about sailboat races yesterday...

Yacht racing is mainly about two things, neither of which really have anything to do with sailing at all. The bottom line is it's really just ego and money. Or, to put it in other words, it's rich men behaving badly and people profiting from rich men behaving badly.

So, forgive me if I'm not going to get all excited by the new STAR (Sailing the Arctic Race) green-washed vaporware circus coming down the pike...

That said, if you want to follow and support a real race for real people of an adventuresome bent, check out the R2AK. It will be a whole lot more interesting and, if successful, could be the very model of the sort of boat racing a lot of us could get behind and support.

Listening to the forever great Percy Sledge

So it goes...