Retired from newspapers and television, currently sailing Thelonious II, a 1984 Ericson 381.
You may wish to cut me some slack for having no companions to talk to during 48 days alone at sea. Or you may simply feel glad that neither you, nor anybody else, was there to have to listen. However, the books are real and their inhabitants saw further horizons that we ever shall, and to voyage with them is to have companionship of the most provocative and companionable kind.