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In small places, everything is amplified. The highs are higher, the lows lower. Three months ago, I was living in the country with the world’s highest COVID rate. Today I’m in the safest place on Earth and my home hasn’t moved an inch. Yet on a deeply personal level, the return to normality feels more than a little disturbing.
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is a series of dispatches exploring how the coronavirus is affecting people’s lives. This as-told-to diary with a superyacht captain has been edited and condensed from a conversation with Laura Lai.
I’m a superyacht captain specializing in large sailing vessels. I started sailing after graduating university in 2008. I was looking for a job that would provide me a bed and food and thought that I could figure the rest out after that. At the time, I didn’t know there was a superyacht industry. I just knew that there were large sailboats out there that would need help sailing. I bought a one-way ticket to Florida in the middle of hurricane season and found work on sailing yachts there.