Sailing Against the Tide of Change

Sunrise at sea

The sailing vessel Wild Matilda and her crew have been on the move during the last ten days or so, and it has really brought home to me the tidal change that has occurred in the worlds of reading, writing and cruising over the last several decades.

When I first started cruising in the 1970's, we used to take off on long passages and read a book while on day watch — and on night watch, I'd tell myself stories and daydream.  We'd write our logs and journals on paper in hard bound n...