AT THE HELM
September 16 was supposed to be the closing date on the sale of , our Swan 59. We’d had a contract in place since May with the buyer, a nonprofit that was set to purchase the boat along with the $40,000 entry fee in the retro round-the-world Ocean Globe Race (OGR), which we’d signed up for. Two weeks earlier I’d gotten wind that the deal might not close—raising money for a round-the-world race campaign is no easy
