“In 1987, the whaleboat Maria Armanda took to the sea for one last hunt. Though whaling had officially ended in the Azores several years prior, the men whose livelihoods had depended on it could not let it go easily. Fast forward 20-some years, […]
“Round the world racer Conrad Humphreys discovers the fascinating world of Azorean whaleboat racing, where the top crews are truly athletic and the boats have a legacy like no other When the tow rope is released, two of the strongest […]
“Pico—one of nine Portuguese Azorean islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that is dominated by a cone volcano—is about three times the size of the U.S. island of Nantucket, or 10% larger than the U.K. Isle of Wight. […]
