"I got up on the board, and I sailed," he said.
"I knew my limits and I sailed the line, just how far I could push the boat without flipping over.
In 1989, Swan and I sailed together on a work boat that ran crews and materials to offshore drill rigs.
I left the company in 2006 and my wife, Alicia, and I sailed around the Bahamas and explored the islands on our 43-foot sailboat.
So it was a Red Label in which my wife and I sailed off last fall to Osceola Mills, Pa., to spend Thanksgiving with our kin.
Another afternoon, my husband, children and I sailed down the Hudson from Pier 62 at Chelsea Piers on the Adirondack, an 80-foot replica of the kind of schooner that once used to carry harbor pilots out to meet arriving ships.
For 7 years, my father and I sailed in segments, until we had circumnavigated the globe.
I dropped out of college, where I was studying physics and English, and I sailed off to the islands for a year.
My mom and I sailed to Japan when I was just an infant, to join my dad who was fighting overseas.
