One could be forgiven for pegging a young Tony Roth as rudderless. It’s not that he took a year off before enrolling at Brown University (many high school graduates do), or that he changed majors (many college students do).
But he did — seemingly capriciously — drop out of Brown and head to Paris for the better part of the year, and he later returned to Brown only to rethink his course of study and career destiny. And there was a second spell in Paris to study at the Sorbonne.
In reality, though, to dub Roth rudderless would be an inaccurate epithet for a man who has spent a lifetime navigating and racing sailboats on Cape Cod and other Northeastern waters, and a person with a membership at the Chatham Yacht Club.
What’s more, the people who know Roth best did not break a sweat over his freelancing ways.
“My parents were cool with my decisions,” Roth says. “I’ve always been a self-directed person and have always had a clear vision of what
