THE WRITING
Solo Sailing is a series of essays about what it’s actually like to sail alone over time — not the skills, but the condition. Fatigue, decision-making, uncertainty, and the slow erosion of clean ideas.
The Missing Witness is a short novella set entirely at sea, concerned less with events than with what happens when there is no one else there to receive them. It follows a lone sailor moving through days that appear complete on their own—quiet anchorages, successful passages, moments that would normally feel resolved. Over time, something subtle surfaces: not loneliness, exactly, but the absence of a witness. Without someone else to see, remember, or reflect an experience back, even extraordinary moments begin to lose weight. The book explores solitude not as hardship, but as a condition that alters how meaning forms and how memory settles.
Where Models Break looks at the same theme more broadly: the places where theory, prediction, and tidy systems stop matching the real world — at sea and elsewhere.
Dead Reckoning is a quiet book about navigation, uncertainty, and the limits of knowing where you are. Using dead reckoning—navigation by estimation rather than fixed reference—as both method and condition, it examines what it means to move forward when position can only be inferred. At sea, small errors accumulate quietly: bearings drift, corrections arrive late, and confidence often rests on assumptions that have not been recently tested. While rooted in offshore experience, the book extends beyond navigation, tracing how judgment forms in any system where certainty is partial and feedback is delayed.
Between the Map and the Wind examines how modern weather forecasts shape confidence and commitment — and where their usefulness ends once conditions are real. It follows the shift from prediction to attention, where models remain helpful, but judgment takes over.
