Warm by the Fire

The sleek and eminently covetable J/124 is launched. Necho II, the Pharoah of Egypt from 610 to 595 BC, is found to have ordered a fleet manned by the Phoenecians to circumnavigate the continent of Africa...a full 200 years before the Greek scientist Eratosthones calculated the circumference of the Earth as a sphere. The pirates of the Caribbean (remember Captain Ron, boss) strike again and the 23rd annual Lights Parade was recently underway in the merry sailing mecca of Annapolis, Maryland. No, we can't sail here in the Northeast (it's even too chilly for frostbiting diehards)...but it's warm by the fire and the Internet is our friend!