When my son entered his new middle school my wife and I were faced with a very an ethical situation common to parents today: do we bowdowntothe evil forces of society, technology and popular culture and get him a cell phone?
Call it the Das Boot effect: With their deep keels and heavy ballast, J-boats push such a mass of water that they tend to hunker down in a breeze, submerging thebow and stern and soaking practically everyone on deck.
Then he'll look down and see he has dropped his bow on the floor, and somehow it will seem to him that there's a great connection between these two objects.
This boat was built to go places, and I knew I had to go down there to see what the story was behind this yacht with the words PANGAEA painted on her bow.