Luke H. Smith

I’m in the Princess Juliana Airport in St. Maarten. It’s Monday afternoon and my flight to Newark is delayed three hours. Coming AND going, my experiences with airlines this trip have been less than stellar: Jet Blue lost my baggage on the way down and now this. I’m hopeful I’ll still make my connection to Boston although I’m kinda skeptical. The view from the airport terminal makes up for the inconvenience somewhat: on the far side of the lone runway,…

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If we didn’t finish DFL we certainly weren’t much farther ahead. The first race of the 2012 Heineken Regatta in the waters around St. Maarten finished a couple of hours ago, but I’ve yet to bother finding out how the Lady Ann did. Not that it wasn’t fun and not that things didn’t go well. But we have so many handicaps that the likelihood of us placing highly are as slim as the possibility that I’ll go home on Monday…

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