Anyone near or north of the 49th parallel has witnessed an abrupt shift in the vista this past week. Sipping tea in long-johns while trolling through potential images for my website’s redesign, I discovered summer nostalgia hibernating in a hard drive.

In summer-2009, I covered the North American Eight Metre Championship, which sailed out of Port Credit, Ont. The 8 Metre is an exclusive international racing class with some boats as old as 80 years and often valued at $1 million or more.

So here’s a little something to warm the digital horizon…