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Me, age 11 or 12, driving a big boat for the first time. Behind me is the owner Bob Redniss giving me pointers. I’m a sailor because my father is a sailor. Dad first started sailing with the Navy, taking out daysailers and such in “hard duty” places like Key West, San Francisco, and the Panama Canal Zone. When I was in grade school, he bought a Rhodes 18. By the time I was 14, my father let me take the sturdy boat out myself, usually with a few pals.    My introduction to big

Without panic, an imminent disaster is narrowly avoided

Usually, several things have to go wrong before a disaster occurs. I am not a cold weather sailor. Frostbiting has never been my thing....