Holding Ground
Forthcoming.
Essays from a small boat
Writing about weather, judgment, solitude — and the gap between every clean idea and what actually happens at sea. Not a guide. Not a highlight reel. Just observation.
The writing
What it's actually like to sail alone over time — not the skills, but the condition. Fatigue, decision-making, uncertainty, and the slow erosion of clean ideas.
The places where theory, prediction, and tidy systems stop matching the real world — at sea and elsewhere.
How modern weather forecasts shape confidence and commitment — and where their usefulness ends once conditions are real.
Practical notes for crossing — weather windows, what to bring, what nobody tells you about the Gulf Stream.
Books
A short novella set entirely at sea, concerned less with events than with what happens when there is no one else there to receive them. It follows a lone sailor through days that appear complete on their own — and the slow surfacing of something subtle: not loneliness, exactly, but the absence of a witness.
A quiet book about navigation, uncertainty, and the limits of knowing where you are. Using dead reckoning — navigation by estimation rather than fixed reference — as both method and condition, it examines what it means to move forward when position can only be inferred.
Forthcoming.
The boat
ETSIA is a liveaboard sailboat. It isn't the subject — it's the environment.
The writing here exists because of the boat, not the other way around.
Nauticat 44s are Finnish-built motorsailers — pilothouse, raised salon, heavy displacement. Slow, dependable, built to stay at sea.
Projects
Onboard hardware and a platform for vessel monitoring. Built around the same observation problem — knowing what's happening when no one's watching.
A small, captain-led flotilla program shaped by the same experience documented here. An extension of the work, not a separate thing.