2003 Sydney, Australia
Taken by Carol outside the Opera House
2008 Evanston, Illinois
67th birthday
2009 Evanston, Illinois self-portrait of the artist fading
2010 Evanston, Illinois
“Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!”
The words are from William Butler Yeats. I quoted
them near the end of STORM PASSAGE and finally lived
the image.
2011 Evanston, Illinois a chance sighting.
November 11, 2011 Evanston, Illinois
My 70th birthday. I am not winking. My right eye was
two months post retina surgery. The green wrist band a
medical alert of a nitrogen bubble in that eye.
2012 Opua, New Zealand another chance sighting
2012 Bay of Islands, New Zealand
taken by Carol
2013 self-portrait in darkness
GANNET’s Great Cabin
2014 Aboard GANNET off San Diego. Taken by my friend, Steve Earley.
2016 Aboard GANNET. Indian Ocean. 39th day at sea.
November 11, 2016 75th birthday
in the background is a drawing of me made by the French magazine VOILES ET VOILIERS half a life time earlier
2017 The joy of sailing. Between St. Lucia and Marathon, Florida.
Between Panama and San Diego 2019
April 28, 2019 The last full day of my sixth circumnavigation. Age 77.
When Carol saw me in this shirt she exclaimed with what I consider
unseemly surprise, “You look like a muscle man.”
October 2020, a month before my 79th birthday
The age of miracles is not over. I have lived to be 80.
November 11, 1221
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