Five stories of sailors who weathered COVID-19 out at sea
Storm on the horizon: For the Kiwi crew of Telasker, the dark skies served as a COVID-19 metaphor for their strange South Pacific odyssey. (Courtesy Talasker/)Two-time circumnavigator and prolific sailing writer Lin Pardey is a longtime, cherished and regular contributor to Cruising World. This story originally featured on Cruising World.The novel coronavirus sent the entire planet, including the sailing world, into a complete tailspin, and at least temporarily altered or even erased the very freedom we enjoy while cruising under sail. The following five COVID-19 dispatches from both near and far-flung waters are a testimony to the resiliency and fortitude of sailors everywhere, serving as snapshots of our time.This past spring, the global pandemic resulting from the novel coronavirus upended the world—including the cruising world—as sailors around the planet scrambled to seek safe harbors and dash together new plans even as borders and waterways slammed closed and the notion of...