RACING TO PARADISE AND BEYOND: The account of a challenging ocean sailing race from Annapolis to Bermuda, and 4 exciting voyages by the author.

RACING TO PARADISE AND BEYONDAn exciting account of the Annapolis to Bermuda Ocean RaceFirst there is a lot of PREPARATION.The first leg is “OUTBOUND CHESAPEAKE BAY.”Soon off shore, they think, “ARE WE LOST? Then they find, “WER’E SINKING.”After seven days at sea in “ROUGH WEATHER.” They say, “LAND IN SIGHT” and have “A STRANGE FINISH.” One great week in “ST. GEORGES, BERMUDA” and then it’s “HOMEWARD BOUND.” An exciting true story from the captain’s log book. PLUS VOYAGES OF A YOUNG SEA CAPTAINFOUR EXCITING SAILING STORIESFirst the captain is solo on his 44-foot sailboat heading north and is caught in a “Spring Chesapeake Bay Gale”.In another story he is with his family heading for the Bahama Islands and has an encounter with a reef, “Battle with South Riding Rock.” On another occasion north, he and his wife and two friends have a terrible time with bad weather in an “Early Passage North.”In the final story he is solo again heading home in Spring. He loses his engine and must sail Footloose almost 450 miles in the ICW and Chesapeake Bay in a “Tough Solo Voyage”. Exciting true tales from the Captain’s Log Books. Read more