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A true Southern Ocean circumnavigation, around the great capes, fills the imagination of every serious sailor, and many others. In 2005, Frank Blair built a 63-foot wooden schooner in Nova Scotia and set off with friends on her two-year maiden voyage around the world. Many sailing books gush about racing, or talk of seventy days in a life raft, or being dismasted off Cape Horn. This book is about a great success: breakdowns with recoveries, lovely ports and 4000 miles of blue water passages. A marvelously dedicated crew and a few jerks. Epic meals and running out of chocolate. The sublime pleasure of a clear night watch and other days with fresh gales. Come along! Thoroughly illustrated in color with photographs, charts and illustrations by Yuta Onota.

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Sailors, experienced and armchair, will love The Voyage of the Maggie B for its literate log entries, informative seamanship counsel, and evocative tales of family, friends, faraway places, and global adventure under sail. Peter Neill, Director, World Ocean Observatory, and Editor, American Sea Writing.--Peter Neill, Peter Neill, Director, World Ocean Observatory, and Editor, American Sea Writing. Some adventures are thrilling to read about, but the reader is glad to be safe at home; more rare are adventures you would actually want to share. The Schooner Maggie B is the latter--a sailor's story of fulfilling the old dream of circumnavigation, but told as if you, the reader, were one of his amateur crew. Written from the Maggie B's actual log, the highly-readable narrative unfolds not only daily events of wind and weather, but also the decisions of seamanship and sea-lore each day brings--leaving you with the heady feeling you are now a seasoned Blue Water sailor. --Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition and The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty What a charming book! I had admired Maggie B from afar, thought her one of Nigel Irens' most intriguing designs, and was heartbroken when she was destroyed. Here her owner brings her fully back to life, shares the ups and downs of a challenging circumnavigation via the Horn, drops many valuable hints on bluewater voyaging, and puts us aboard right beside him.--Charles J. Doane, Cruising Editor, SAIL Magazine, author of The Sea Is Not Full Here is a whale of a seagoing tale from an intrepid adventurer who made good on a lifelong dream of circumnavigating the planet. Full of wise wit and much practical advice, this is a spirited love letter to blue-water sailing--and to the graceful boat that took the author on a wild voyage around the world. ----Hampton Sides, author of In the Kingdom of Ice As a fine violin is brought to life by the hands of a worthy violinist, MAGGIE B was dependent on her captain and crew to make something of her. How fortunate we were as designers and builders to see this vessel picked up where we had left off and brought to life over the coming years by such a formidable leader and his enthusiastic crew!--Nigel Irens, RDI, Yacht Designer Frank Blair pulled me right back to sea in this warm, generous, highly instructive, and beautifully illustrated account of his dream voyage around the world under sail. --John Rousmaniere, Author of Fastnet Force 10 Annapolis Book of Seamanship and other sailing classics

Sailors, experienced and armchair, will love The Voyage of the Maggie B for its literate log entries, informative seamanship counsel, and evocative tales of family, friends, faraway places, and global adventure under sail. Peter Neill, Director, World Ocean Observatory, and Editor, American Sea Writing.--Peter Neill, Peter Neill, Director, World Ocean Observatory, and Editor, American Sea Writing.

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Frank Blair served in the US Navy for five years, from 1966 to 1971, as a fighter pilot flying single-seat fighters off of carriers in the Mediterranean and the Western Pacific, and received five Air Medals for low-level reconnaissance over North Vietnam. Flying skills hone sailing skills: radio, navigation, meteorology and appreciation for Bernoulli's Principle. His love of sailing began in childhood and he worked Hurricane Island Outward Bound School for 20 years teaching seamanship. The US Coast Guard licensed him as a Master for Sail and Power. He became a Shellback en route to Australia from Vietnam and has served as a Stand-In for Neptune twice since. He lives in Maine and on his new schooner, FARFARER.

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