Image gallery for Rip Converse author of Maelstrom

Here are some of my visual musings.

I try not to take myself too seriously. My love of sailing started early. Here's a smattering of images from my sailing life starting with my very first boat that my father built me when I was 9.

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My first boat when I was 9.

Mid ocean sunset 1.

Sunset mid-ocean.

Clifton, 120 Black Labrador.

Rip Converse in Newport on a foggy day.

Louise and Toby on Cuttyhunk in the Elizabeth Islands.

Louise and Rip Converse in Greece on Indigo II.

Indigo II catamaran in the Aegean Sea.

Catamaran babes, Key West.

Driving 9th wave up the Merrimack River towards open sea from Newburyport.

Bringing in a fat little tuna I caught on the way to Bermuda one year.

55' sloop Whizzbang being launched in Marion, MA.

9th Wave catamaran I captained in Newburyport, MA.

Exploring some smaller islands in Tonga with some friends.

A boar walking through the center of Tonga.

Buying fish in Mustique.

Swan 65'

Topping off fuel and water before leaving Bermuda.