Professors of the sea
BELOW DECK ON the 44-foot sailing vessel Rocinante, you look up and see only a shape of sky. You could be anywhere in the world.
Ben Eriksen Carey, the co-owner and co-captain, washes dishes in the galley’s foot-pump sink and his wife, Teresa, organises laminated charts (land is mapped; water is charted) at a lap table. A small hammock of
