Full Circle

Highlands Current Audio Stories · Jun 12, 2026 · 1m

Cold Spring sailor returns after 364 days In the early morning hours on June 1, Aaron Wolfe quietly moored Badger, his 27-foot Vancouver cutter, at the Chelsea Yacht Club just north of Beacon for the first time in 364 days. The 59-year-old Cold Spring resident sailed 14,166 miles, a voyage that included two solo crossings of the Atlantic Ocean. A year earlier, after sailing south to New York City, Wolfe set a course north up the East Coast to the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, then traveled east to Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic, landing at Dingle, Ireland. Among the 18…