Kimball Corson: I am a 75 year old solo sailor, by choice. However, I did take on a personable, but high maintenance female kitten, now a full grown cat, named KiKiPoo when she is sweet, or KatKatPo after she has just killed something like a bird or bat. [...]I can be reached, while on land, at kimcorson@netzero.com or, while at sea, at K8KIM@winlink.org or WDC4506@sailmail.com.

Although I was a lawyer and practiced law with good success for thirty years, creating significant new law, I never really believed in the law, the politics of law or in the over reaching self-interest of most lawyers I met. Too much exposure to Nietzsche and other good and seriously thoughtful [...]

people, I guess. And while I was well-trained in economics and had the good fortune to study at the graduate level under seven Nobel Laureates, I was never really a practicing economist. (The Laureates, received then or later, were for Milton Friedman, Ronald Coase, George Stigler, Theodore Schultz, Robert Mundell, Gary Becker and Robert Fogel -- and my parents wondered why I turned down acceptance to Harvard and went to Chicago for grad school instead! Later they came to understand.) However, unlike law, I do believe in economics and have somewhat kept up with the field. I have graduate level degrees in both law and economics from the University of Chicago. Much about the rest my broad range of interests can be pretty well gleaned from my website here. I am sometimes busy, too, writing articles on economics, occasionally for SeekingAlpha, the world's premiere investments and economics website. at http://seekingalpha.com/author/kimball-corson . I have had over 100 articles in a row published by them. In the past, I have been elected into Marquis' Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, and The Cambridge Who's Who of Intellectuals, as well as others. To see what else I have done in life so far, see my Reverse Bucket List at http://sailblogs.com/member/thewanderer/?xjMsgID=176811 About How I Came to Be Doing What I Am. ________ Sailing on little Lake Pleasant in Arizona one day many years ago, it occurred to me I needed to really sail somewhere after I retired from the practice of law and not just bop up and down a lake near home (or the west coast in another boat I kept there). Inasmuch as the idea actually originated on Lake Pleasant, Arizona, I deem that to be my hailing port. Ideas matter. As T.S. Eliot put it "Old men ought to be explorers," in part, to really come to know the places where they have lived. I also took some inspiration from Mark Twain's comment that "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Twain also reminded us that "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness," nice afflictions to lack. While I am sure he spoke metaphorically on the first point, I took the good Mr. Twain quite literally. I now plan to spend the rest of my able life circumnavigating in the most varied and circuitous way possible, staying at it and with my boat full time (except for side excursions inland to explore), and not dabbling at it when the spirit moves me or returning to places I have already visited on this adventure. These are my concessions to the brevity of life. Also, no straight-line, two-year shot around the globe to say I've done it. I want to pick up languages, cultures, vistas and to meet people to the greatest extent I am able. I now have Spanish solidly under my belt and have also started French, but need a good emersion situation. This trip is sort of my goodbye to the world and it is a work in progress. About Boat Selection _________________ My general thoughts on boat selection are found in my post here entitled "Choosing an Offshore Yacht," dated July 21, 2009, at http://sailblogs.com/member/thewanderer/?xjMsgID=95585 and in the comments to the ninth entry "Lessons Learned." . For more about the Fair Weather Mariner 39 and its captain, go to the first entry on this website entitled "The Boat and Its Captain" and then up to the ninth entry, "Lessons Learned." Use the contents list to the left here to find these other posts. The photographs and texts on this blog not disclaimed or obviously not mine are individually and collectively copyrighted to Kimball J. Corson 2004 - 2016. Any questions, ask first.