When Morrie Piersol opened the front door to his, I greeted him with, “Good to see you!”
To which he replied, with a laugh, “It’s good to be seen.”
No doubt. Less than a week earlier, Piersol and two sailing mates cruising through the wide-open lonesome of the North Atlantic had weathered a storm that rocked and rolled them and ultimately smashed their 40-foot boat, plunging it into a 360-degree spin under the water and back up again.
The experience was what you might imagine it’s like to be sent through the heavy-duty cycle on the family washing machine with a (very) cold rinse. Read More
