It's sometime near midnight, and the wind is building. But I'm already falling asleep. An hour or two prior, we do a head sail change to the heavy weather jib as the wind begins hitting 30kn, and the furled, restrained genoa is out of range. The boat is straining, jumping over the seas, and simply unhappy. Moving about is difficult, an...

"All hands on deck!" It's dark. What time is it? What's going on? There is no time to think as I leap out of my bunk in my underpants, grabbing my PFD and tether as I run up the companionway passing Bill on my way to the cockpit, as he leaped below repeating the call "All hands!" There is no time for clothing, no room for modesty. On d...

For the past 8 months, I've been on a career break, and a well-overdue one at that. I have been working in one form or another since I was 13 years old at my first tech support job. It's hard to imagine now, but I was answering phones at Shaw Communications in Calgary, Alberta doing phone based internet tech support in 1996. “Thank you...

Hey, I'm Adam, a technology executive, sailor, and world traveler. I'm on a "Grand Adventure" sailing the Pacific Ocean and traveling South East Asia with my wife and 8-year-old son before I resume my career. I've been working in technology in one way or another for 27 years since I was 13 years old. I specialize in infrastructure and ...