Sometimes you get pinned in an anchorage for two weeks due to bad weather. Enjoy it. Read a good book, make love with your partner, learn to speak Spanish. Wishing it were otherwise will do no good. Nor will convincing yourself that ìt will be ‘alright to leave’ when clearly it is not, in order to self-justify your wish to catch the Kentucky Derby on ESPN. Take off your shoes. Wish in one and pee in the other. Do you see which one fills up first? Good! Now you have your proper sea gypsy head on, let’s have a look at what kind of trouble we can get into picking the right boat.
