From the Detroit Free Press, my hometown newspaper!
When you think of the Straits of Hormuz, you may have a picture of Iranian torpedo boats buzzing like horseflies around huge American warships, or tankers steaming to and from oil ports in one of the busiest waterways in the world.
So what’s a woman from Port Huron doing in the middle of all that on a 30-foot sailboat?
If you’re Katie Pettibone you’re racing with an all-female crew in the second annual Sail Arabia, a 900-mile race along the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula from Bahrain to Muscat. Continue reading…
