Each year on the day after Christmas, one of the world's most challenging sailing competitions takes place: The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. As I sit on the shores of the harbor waiting for the boats to start their journey, I contemplate the sailors who will make their way 1,000 miles, sailing from Sydney across the treacherous Tasman Straits to Hobart. This race, it seems, is a microcosm of human life - with its uncertainties, unpredictabilities, the need for split-second decisions, a reliance on one's experience, and on one's wits and intuition in duet with a greater force...
