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Chief medical officer of the Cook Islands which stretch 1,000 miles across the Pacific from Tahiti to New Zealand, Dr. Thomas R. A. Davis will make the voyage in a 40 foot ketch accompanied by his wife two young sons, and a crew member...
...dream, but it was one that never loses its shine: they would sail around the world together in a small boat, and support themselves by writing about their adventures. They put all their money into buying and refitting the Reliance, a tough but rundown old 70-ft. fishing ketch, but they didn't have quite enough and they ran into debt. Before the Reliance was ready to sail, the mortgage holders began to close in. It was then, with the foreclosure notice already nailed to their dream-boat's mast, that the Davisons defied the sheriff...
...record won him the British Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre. With the same misleading modesty he insists that he is merely a "landsman"-but his new book is all about a voyage he made in his 31-ton ketch Truant two years ago, from England to Greece, via the English Channel, the rivers and canals of France, and the Mediterranean Sea. His crew consisted of wife Isabel, whom Millar describes as if she were a delicate platinum watch to which salt water would be fatal, but who suggests, in action...
...really now, did TIME [March 15] have to freeze the salt in this part-time sailor's heart by calling Tonga, my 60-ft. oceangoing ketch in which Gregory Peck and Leslie Charteris were holidaying, a "cruiser...
...TIME'S People editor is a ketch-as-ketch-can sailor...