Charlie Doane is Cruising Editor of Sail magazine, the largest yachting magazine in the US. He has also published articles in The New York Times, Offshore and Cruising World. His first book, The Modern Cruising Sailboat, was published by International Marine/McGraw-Hill in 2010. He is also the author of Wavertrain, a prize-winning blog. He has completed six transatlantic voyages and numerous other ocean passages, including singlehanded passages between New England and the Caribbean.

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• Prologue: A Delivery Gone Wrong Buzzard's Rowboat: Southeast U.S. Coast Estocada on the Rio Odiel: Southwest Coast of Spain First Boats: Learning to Be a Sensuous Sailor Weather Rules: A Theology of Ocean Sailing Celestial Reasoning: The Art of Where We Are Now Heavy Weather Sailing: Too Much Wind and What to Do about It South to Senegal Finding My Toma Africa Dances Mauri Mullen: Until the End of His days Reid Stone: The Longest Voyage Epilogue: A Flight Back West