The Schooner Maggie B.: A Southern Ocean Circumnavigation [Hardcover]

Sailors, experienced and armchair, will love The Voyage of the Maggie B for its literate log entries, informative seamanship counsel, and evocative tales of family, friends, faraway places, and global adventure under sail.Peter Neill, Director, World Ocean Observatory, and Editor, American Sea Writing. Frank Blair pulled me right back to sea in this warm, generous, highly instructive, and beautifully illustrated account of his dream voyage around the world under sail. Some adventures are thrilling to read about, but the reader is glad to be safe at home; more rare are adventures you would actually want to share. The Schooner Maggie B is the lattera sailors story of fulfilling the old dream of circumnavigation, but told as if you, the reader, were one of his amateur crew. Written from the Maggie Bs actual log, the highly-readable narrative unfolds not only daily events of wind and weather, but also the decisions of seamanship and sea-lore each day bringsleaving you with the heady feeling you are now a seasoned Blue Water sailor. What a charming book! I had admired Maggie B from afar, thought her one of Nigel Irens' most intriguing designs, and was heartbroken when she was destroyed. Here her owner brings her fully back to life, shares the ups and downs of a challenging circumnavigation via the Horn, drops many valuable hints on bluewater voyaging, and puts us aboard right beside him. Frank Blair pulled me right back to sea in this warm, generous, highly instructive, and beautifully illustrated account of his dream voyage around the world under sail. Here is a whale of a seagoing tale from an intrepid adventurer who made good on a lifelong dream of circumnavigating the planet. Full of wise wit and much practical advice, this is a spirited love letter to blue-water sailingand to the graceful boat that took the author on a wild voyage around the world. As a fine violin is brought to life by the hands of a worthy violinist, MAGGIE B was dependent on her captainl³°