Last Voyage of the Cúlin

This is a great article on Outside.com that tells the tale of the search for answers surrounding the mysterious death of a sailor in southern Mexico named John Long. It also recants the author's terrifying experience trying to sail along the Mexican coast, and nearly getting himself killed. Makes for a damn good read. An excerpt:

It was like a story from Gabriel García Márquez: the carnivalesque scene on the beach. The sea that brings gifts of the First World, conquistadors, and death. This body floating naked and larger than life—John Long, literally a big man, now become legend. But this tale is real. It happened in February in the village of La Cigüeña, on the west coast of Chiapas, seven miles from Mexico's border with Guatemala. Long, a 78-year-old Irishman who'd spent his adult life in California, had dreamed of this voyage for 16 years. He'd left San Francisco three months earlier on his 48-foot ketch, Cúlin, heading south to the Panama Canal and then home to his native Ireland.

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