Haiku is probably a common name for a boat, or maybe Steve sold her (that story took place in '91). Was the Haiku you saw a Bristol Channel Cutter?

Re: the fast passage, we spent a night in Santa Barbara, but I left that out of the tale to make it more compact. Everything else in the story is true, though. We were averaging 9 knots over the ground at the height of the storm, with just the stay'sl up.

The boat in the pictures is Nausikaa, my San Francisco Pelican, the world's biggest 12 foot boat. I sold her in '78. You're probably familiar with them if you're from the Bay Area, although I sailed mine in Tampa. I had a MacGregor 22 when I lived in Mountain View.

I don't have a boat now, I just write about them.