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"For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need
to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of
consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can
remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip
and soar in the breeze."
- Richard Bode, First you have to row a little boat
Welcome to the former site of my sailing page of internet sailing resources. After more than 30 years of maintaining this website, I've swallowed the anchor. Except for the occassional whale watching trip, or maybe a short sail in a friend's boat, my maritime days have come to an end. And what a time it was! The wind in your face. Feeling the sails catch and the boat heel. Coupled with studying maritime history, and receiving an M.A. Then amazingly being there at the birth of the web and maintaining this garden of links to relevant sailing websites. One can ask for no more.
If your antiquarian interests are truly peaked of life before influenciers, commericals and the plague of misinformation, the Internet Archive has versions of this website when both the Web and I were young.
History: The early history of this site is clouded in the mysteries of my forgetful memory. Initially, the site started out as a page of my sailing bookmarks. Soon after that, I created the site. The earliest file, which I still have, (tall-ships-faq) was modified on June 18 1993. I moved the site off my personal machine when my company installed their first firewall onto an SGI Indigo R4000 called community, located outside the firewall.
My log files from that machine begin June 13, 1994. In September 1996, I established the domain apparent-wind.com and in August 1997 began moving visitors from the community machine to apparent-wind.com. In late summer 1998 I turned community off and all traffic is now served from the apparent-wind.com domain.
(Jan. 2001) Traffic: about 35 people an hour
(Jul. 2025) Harbor stow
Page last updated: Jul 11 08:38:56 2025 MDT.
