John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook
"Because almost anybody with a little bit of know-how can sail. I'm after a battle with nature, primitive and raw."
The British have a love of eccentric hobbies, a love that is ratified through organizations that indulge their unusual avocations. When I lived in the U.K, I was invited to join a group that collected matchbooks, another that studied the type of cobbles used in ancient walkways, and still another that was dedicated to proving that the Earth was indeed f…