Coastal Skipper Sailing Book

I am fascinated by people who desire living on the edge, and find experiencing their travails vicariously through books is the best for me, cause you wouldn't get me coming near the top of Everest or, in this case, sailing solo on a four-month voyage around Antarctica and back to France. Yep, these folks are crazy. This book probably would have made a nice long article, and there were parts I just slipped through quickly, but it was still informative and thrilling. Just the thought of sleeping in a tinderbox in raging seas with icebergs and flotsam about all alone sends chills down my spine, and in fact, many of the competitors in this race got little downtime. The Vendee race is the ultimate in pushing the nautical envelope. Nevertheless, there were a lot of fortunate sailors in these pages. And despite their harrowing experiences, they all seem to want to immediately get back into the Southern waters. More power to them.

My biggest gripe with this book is that there were way too many typos, possibly gained through the LP process. It is almost as if they scanned the pages and went with what they got. Please, hire some copy editors.