Some guys have all the fun: Beckermans to Patagonia

Clare,Kathryn, Sophia Clare

French sailor, 73, wins round-the-world solo-race without modern instruments | Sport | The Guardian

Fifty years ago Robin Knox Johnston was the first solo non-stop round the world sailor.  Triumphant in the first such race - the golden Globe - he became a legend.  This week he greeted Jean Luc van den Heede who matched the feat: sailing non stop, single handed - no outside assistance - using 1969's equipment: sextant, paper charts, and shortwave radio!  Five of the nineteen starters are still at sea.

French sailor, 73, wins round-the-world solo-race without modern instruments | Sport | The Guardian: A 73-year-old French sailor has won an unusual, around-the-world yacht race after 212 days alone at sea without modern instruments, in what was his first sailing victory.

82 foot wave

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Barges break loose on upper Hudson River

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Mary Oliver, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Dies at 83 - The New York Times

To live in this world



you must be able

to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it



against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it

go,

to let it go.

  

Mary Oliver

In Blackwater Woods

Mary Oliver, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Dies at 83 - The New York Times: With its plain language and minute attention to flora and fauna, her uplifting verse was widely popular and her readings drew throngs. But critics were divided.

Paul Cayard in Antarctica

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