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...does in three new nautical sagas. Godforsaken Sea (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; 272 pages; $22.95) is one of the best books ever written about sailing--in this case the extreme sailing required to go around the world solo in the toughest of all sailboat races, the Vendee Globe. Aboard wide-beamed, thin-hulled, 60-ft. racing machines--surfboards for maniacs, once they get to the 50-ft. waves of the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica--the Vendee Globe competitors are bound by brutally simple rules. They stipulate one boat, one person, no help, no stops, first home wins...
...theirs. In The Perfect Storm--an account of the savage Halloween gale of 1991 in the Atlantic off Massachusetts--author Sebastian Junger described Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." The Hungry Ocean is Greenlaw's account of a 30-day trip aboard the 100-ft. sword boat Hannah Boden as it steams out with a five-man crew from the Massachusetts coast to the Grand Banks and then strings out 40 miles of line to catch swordfish. The book brims with the expertise of commercial fishing--and is especially interesting on Greenlaw...
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 said he is excited to have Moriarty aboard...
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 said he is excited to have Moriarty aboard...
Sabina Forbes, the candidate's wife, sat off in a corner of Bon's with a faraway look that suggested to one of my old pals that she might be dreaming of spending overheated days like this not in Ames but aboard the family's famous jet, Capitalist Tool, flying off to soothing climes...