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Wilson now lives on a 40-ft. sailboat with hiswife of 30 years, Betty. He has four children andeight grand-children...
...AMF/Alcort sailboat wouldn't do me much good either. In Boston, there are only about two weeks of weather each year good enough to enjoy sailing--even if I didn't get seasick just watching Baywatch...
OUTERBRIDGE REACH by Robert Stone (Ticknor & Fields; $21.95). Owen Browne, a fortyish American male, plunges into an improbable sailboat race around the globe. The hero's wife and a cynical documentary filmmaker observe Owen's quest with different interests in mind. The conclusion is shattering and not to be forgotten...
...sardonic definition of a sailboat is a hole in the water into which you pour money. And effort. And time. The surprise is only that the description has remained apt for so long. While there have been countless improvements in boating equipment, the sailboat, especially the basic 30- to 40-ft. cruising craft, has not changed much in the past 20 years. Nor has it had the full- scale design overhaul that might be expected for a relatively expensive sport, where as many as eight people work simultaneously at complicated tasks...
...journeying, not burrowing in, is Raban's job. He returns to it just in time, with a roguish last chapter set offshore in the Florida Keys. He has rented a sailboat, and the wind is up, and banks of low nimbus clouds are swarming in from the northwest. Out of sight, the Key West highway is clogged with tourists, but that's their problem. Raban's narrative scuds toward the open sea, and the beguiled reader, as always at such moments, makes plans: sell the house, buy a boat. A case of salsa and a gallon of rum. How hard...