Technology takes the guesswork out of sailing into stormy weather - washingtonpost.com

There are times when I wish I'd been born 100 years ago instead of 64 and could have lived my active years without the Internet and satellites, BlackBerrys, cellphones and computers cluttering the landscape. This is not one of those times.

Because if you turned the calendar back 30 or 40 years, I'd have spent last week bashing into monstrous head seas in the North Atlantic in a small boat, probably a leaky, wooden one, bound for Bermuda in survival conditions with no communications, no weather information, no way of knowing when or whether the dreadful storm would end...