Continuing with the reflection of one year on the seas, here are a few more things I’ve learned:

• Fear has a taste. Literally, you can taste fear at the back of your mouth.  It’s metallic, and gross.
• How to: make tortillas, repair a stove, cut and rejoin electric lines, live without refrigeration, sew boat canvas, write and publish an article, use salt beef/pork, make salt fish, and sharpen knives.
• If we spend too long on the boat together, without time apart or seeing other people, we will have a big, unnecessary fight.
• 15-20 knot trade winds on a beam reach in the Caribbean is a big, fat myth.  You’ll be going to weather, often in 25-30 caused by the island effect.  Get used to it.