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This sailor's memoir recounts a life spent travelling the world by boat. From the challenges of raising a family at sea to the rewards of exploring remote corners of the globe, the author shares the joys and hardships of a unique lifestyle.

ALL AT SEA – Advertisement – Since I grew up aboard, it was always a given that someday I’d circumnavigate—but there was ‘many a slip between the cup and lip’ as they say. My first boat rotted faster than I could wood-butcher new planks and frames into her. It took me a while to build a new 36-foot ketch from scratch with empty pockets. Thus, I was in my mid-twenties in the late ‘70s before heading down to the Lesser Antilles for a brief shakedown cruise before shoving off on my f...