Sailing the Northeast PerseverancePerseverance It’s Volvo Time in Newport! May 2018 • FREE www.windcheckmagazine.com publisher's log Sailing the Northeast Issue 173 Well, that was brutal. After a teasing thaw in February, enough Publisher to even get in a first round of golf, March and April have not Benjamin Cesare been much fun for us in the Northeast. And while this is typical,
[email protected] it’s definitely upset some schedules as we prepare for the season. Associate Publisher Hopefully, some of you got south to Sperry Charleston Race Anne Hannan Week or further south to race in Miami or the Caribbean for a
[email protected] break! Now the sun is working and it’s going to be full on to get Editor-at-Large Christopher Gill ready. May is going to be very busy regardless of the weather.
[email protected] This whining is definitely put into perspective by the loss of Senior Editor John Fisher in the Southern Ocean on the brutal Leg 7 of the Chris Szepessy Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18. Our heart goes out to his family
[email protected] and friends. And “our” team in the race, Team Vestas 11th Hour Contributing Editor Racing, has personified perseverance. After the tragedy on the ap- Joe Cooper
[email protected] proach to Hong Kong in Leg 5, they rallied to make Leg 7 from Graphic Design New Zealand to Brazil, only to be dismasted some two hundred Kerstin Fairbend miles south of the Falkland Islands. More amazing resilience now
[email protected] has them ready to make the start for the leg “home” to Newport Contributors this month.