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    Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic
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    Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic
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    Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic

    Written by Stuart Woods

    Narrated by Stephen Collins

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    About this audiobook

    Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world's most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea?

    Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life, Woods takes readers on a spectacular journey not just of traveling across the world, but
    of being tried in fire, learning by accepting challenges, appreciating the beauty of the open water, and living to tell about it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 2, 2012
    ISBN9781101590119
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    Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic
    Author

    Stuart Woods

    Stuart Woods is the author of more than forty novels, including the New York Times bestselling Stone Barrington and Holly Barker series. An avid sailor and pilot, he lives in New York City, Florida, and Maine.

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    • 4/5
       So…I read this only because it satisfied a reading challenge category…and found myself actually enjoying it. I like Stuart Woods' Stone Barrington series and was familiar with his writing so that wasn’t the surprising part. What surprised me was that I was actually drawn into this story of a novice sailor preparing for a solo transAtlantic boat race despite my having zero interest in either sailing or water sports.This memoir starts off with the 35-year old writer living alone in Ireland earning a living writing articles and working on a writing career. One day at the harbor, he decides to contact the local sailing club and see if he can crew for a boat. He is badly bitten by the sailing bug and he decides to buy a small boat for himself. Soon, that is not enough and he embarks on the process of purchasing, preparing and sailing a 24’ racing yacht by himself across the Atlantic to Newport.The time and money that went into the preparation for this race was astonishing. The expense of outfitting a boat for this type of journey and the constant aggravations experienced by the author, definitely reinforced my opinion that this is not something I would be interested in (assuming, of course, that I could even afford it!).If you like sailing – or have an interest in it – I definitely recommend this book. If you want a glimpse into that world, this works well…so long as you realize that sailing has its very only language and that there may be some that will either need to be looked up or skimmed over.Rating 3.75 Stars