CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
I first met Steve and Irene Macek in the proper way—in an anchorage full of bluewater cruising boats. This was in St. Georges, Bermuda, in the spring of 2019. Theirs, without doubt, was the most distinctive boat there—an immaculate, three-masted, double-ended Marco Polo schooner named , with tanbark sails, a yin-yang emblem on her bow, and the flag of St. Kitts and Nevis flying from her transom. She was pretty hard
