The author is a psychologist, sailor, and wooden boat builder. He and his wife have been to one-hundred-plus ports in the United States, Canada, BVI, and Greece since their start of cruising at age...view moreThe author is a psychologist, sailor, and wooden boat builder. He and his wife have been to one-hundred-plus ports in the United States, Canada, BVI, and Greece since their start of cruising at age fifty. Their four-summer cruise took them 3,400 miles out the St. Lawrence and down the Atlantic Coast. They currently sail a 1982 Bristol 41 but will not leave the fresh water of the Great Lakes for reasons known only to the readers of the new book. We hope more of our grandchildren, ages twelve to seventeen, will join us on the lake cruises. That’s why we got a bigger boat, with eight possible berths and two heads!view less