My long time friend Tom Abbott just participated in the Pacific Cup 2010 sailboat race from San Francisco to Hawaii. I posted videos he e-mailed to me below, but found another of sailing with relatives in SF Bay last October. It has more of Tom. That’s him at the helm.
The Hawaii race was a well-deserved break for Tom because he has a lot on his plate these days.
Tom comes from the early seventies generation of Boston cabbies (I was one, too). And he also drove in the Twin Cities and San Francisco. Today’s college grads can’t find good jobs, but trust me, it was worse in 1972-73, hence so many college educated hackney coachman back then. We all inspired the show, Taxi.
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Proof of why sailing will never be a made for TV sport. Having personally experienced the adrenalin rushes of off shore racing, these videos simply don’t do justice to what I know these guys were experiencing.