VOYAGING
When I first started thinking about longdistance cruising, back in the 1960s, there weren’t many role models. Eric and Susan Hiscock were sailing around the world, just the two of them in their modest wooden boats, gone for a few years at a time. They chronicled their travels in books, magazine articles and films, and were soon followed by Lin and Larry Pardey. On the West Coast, countercultural adventurers were building Piver trimarans in their backyards to sail west across the Pacific. But for me, in practical terms, all these voyagers were hard to relate to.
These cruisers, or their descendants, are still out there, and you can find them at ocean crossroads like the Azores, the Caribbean and French Polynesia, among many other distant ports. But as voyaging…
