Jay & Karen Campbell

Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons wreak the same havoc under different names. In the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific it’s “hurricane” in the Northwest Pacific; “typhoon” and “cyclone” in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, the SRT can assess your musculoskeletal fitness and may potentially even predict your lifespan.

In our time living aboard, Karen and I have come to love the sound, and recently decided to make our own horn for Largo. Lucky for us, our cruising home du jour is the Bahamas, where Queen Conch or Strombus gigas shells are plentiful.

This month, we’re shifting gears slightly and focusing on diet. For starters, try adding 30 grams of fiber to your everyday diet. Continue to eat what you like, but adding this much fiber from a variety of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains is easy to achieve.

The calm before the storm was cruel and we slept in fitful bits, waking to NOAA alerts as if they were from the front lines of an invasion. And we held each other, glad to be together, living the life we love, even in the storm.

We cast off from Key Biscayne before light in early August, not the cautious crossing season, but mindful of the storms ahead.

When our trawler breaks I think nothing of rebuilding her, no matter the damage. It is second nature to fix whatever ails Largo. Be the steward to your body that you are to your boat.