IN THE BEGINNING
The original reason for this website was to provide a place for me
to share material concerning my interests in sailing and celestial navigation.
That was a long time ago. Since those early days of the Internet I've managed to
sail across the Pacific Ocean a number of times ( eleven times in my own boat Cirrus )
and lived to see the death of celestial navigation
and the ubiquitous outpouring
of GPS navigation systems even in watches, telephones and cameras.
MOVING ON
I'm retired now, but for about 35 years I worked with Wladek Swiatecki (my mentor and colleague) at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on a scientific program concerning the properties of nuclei.
AT THE MOMENT
The site includes some newsletters my wife Valerie and I started to keep friends up to date on our adventures. When we married in 2000 and moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Hawaii, we lived on the boat for awhile. Now we have a regular house and I spend a lot of time on renovation.