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ETERNAL VIGILANCE
Read more →I was somewhere in my mid-30’s when I realized that I was on the wrong side of the slope. You know the slope, the one that finds you getting weaker every day. It happened while I was hefting a sail out of the forward hatch on LUCKY PUFF, my racing sailboat, and found myself huffing and puffing like an overworked fireplace bellows. “That’s it,” I thought, “I’m going to join a health club.” This was back in the day when gyms were called ‘health clubs’ and were few and far between. The only one in the Newport area was an...