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New York Times Rolex Watch-spotting (Friday, 09-01-2023)...Throw off the bowlines.
Note: I'm nagged by the feeling I posted the enclosed picture before but even so it bears repeating.
New York Times article Friday, 09-01-2023: Bill Pinkney, Globe-Circling Sailor Who Set a Racial Mark, Dies at 87 (He was the first Black person to sail alone by way of the arduous southern route, rounding the perilous Cape Horn and withstanding storms and loneliness.) The picture's caption: Bill Pinkney in Chicago aboard his 47-foot cutter, Commitment, in September 1989. He set sail on his epic voyage the following August out of Boston. Credit...Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
The picture of Captain Pinkney and his Rolex Submariner at least to me is wistful, when the Rolex myth was more than a fiction.
A quote form the New York Times article from Captain Pinkney: "...the sea does not care who you are, what your race or gender is, how much wealth or power you have, or even what flag or political system you embrace. The sea treats everyone the same."
New York Times Rolex Watch-spotting (Friday, 09-01-2023)...Throw off the bowlines.
Note: I'm nagged by the feeling I posted the enclosed picture before but even so it bears repeating. New York Times article Friday, 09-01-2023: Bill Pinkney, Globe-Circling Sailor Who Set a Racial Mark, Dies at 87 ( He was the first Black person to sail a...
