Dispatches from a desert sailor

Partly to allay suspicions that I was some kind of nautical disaster waiting for a place to happen, I began writing up my sailing adventures, and sending the reports off to various relatives and blogs. This is a collection of some of those reports, plus some random bloviating on sailing, life and the universe in general. I am putting this out there for the world mostly to get my feet wet with this newfangled self-publishing stuff. Plus, I'm curious if anyone would actually pay nearly an ent...