by Rich Wilson | Feb 19, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We made very good speeds yesterday, right up against my tolerance for stress and waiting for something to break. I think the only way past that is to do more of it, but coming down the homestretch of the Vendée Globe after 100+ days at sea is not the time for that....
by Rich Wilson | Feb 17, 2017 | Inspiration
In late 2009, after safely finishing Vendee Globe 2008-9 and delivering our sitesALIVE program to 250,000 students in the US, I read in the Harvard Business School Bulletin (I had received my MBA from there in 1982), that one of my section mates, Nadeem Qureshi, was...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 16, 2017 | Ship's Logs
Yesterday we had a long fast run toward the Azores. Finally deciding on common sense to go straight for France when we could, rather than follow the routing north, we made many miles toward the finish. Curiously, I had aimed at Faial in the Azores as a target way back...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 14, 2017 | Ship's Logs
We had strong winds last night as the beginning of the big depression started to move to our area. Actually, ours was a secondary depression to the primary big one off the New England coast and forecast to move North Northeast. We are lucky that it is not headed this...
by Rich Wilson | Feb 14, 2017 | Inspiration
In the late 1970s, after I studied at MIT, I was offered a job in Washington, DC working for Analytic Services, Inc., a company that was contracted to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. This was during the Cold War, where the world had aligned itself either...
