Howard Rice talks about his life before the wind 

This presentation by Howard Rice ‪@howardrice7280‬ was given to an online audience comprised of members of the Dinghy Cruising Association in February 2023. The session was chaired by Roger Barnes ‪@RogerRoving‬, President of the DCA.
In his talk Howard firstly talks about his life sailing and his approach to dinghy cruising. Then he takes us through a comparison of cruising two different dinghies in the southern ocean and finally recounts his journey down the Strait of Magellan in a Scamp.
Howard Rice is a lifelong sailor, sailboat racer, voyager, boat builder, sail-maker, hiker, climber, long-distance swimmer, global adventurer, and a former college professor. He built his first boat as a junior high school shop class project at age eleven. Since then he has built, restored, instructed the builds of, or had a hand in the modification of over 160 boats.
He is currently living and working in the Oki Island UNESCO Global GEOPARK. He joins us today from the boat shop he developed for a non profit organisation he helped set up on the remote island of Nakanoshima, Japan.
His work is focused on bringing the sea and small boats to the people of Japan and features small boat building classes, the restoration of traditional Japanese Kanko workboats, a student-focused GPS mini boat tracking project, and the development of an Optimist Pram instructional program. As always he has a voyage in the planning stage and looks forward to the next horizon soon.