Cold Spring sailor returns after 364 days
In the early morning hours on June 1, Aaron Wolfe quietly moored Badger, his 27-foot Vancouver cutter, at the Chelsea Yacht Club just north of Beacon for the first time in 364 days.
The 59-year-old Cold Spring resident sailed 14,166 miles, a voyage that included two solo crossings of the Atlantic Ocean. A year earlier, after sailing south to New York City, Wolfe set a course north up the East Coast to the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, then traveled east to Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic, landing at Dingle, Ireland.
Among the 18 countries and 82 stops he made were England, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda. The final northern leg followed the East Coast to New York and up the Hudson River. Along the way, Wolfe read 50 books.