A Sailor's Tales

Along the way are hurricanes in the Atlantic typhoons and earthquakes in the Pacific and the Orient wild times on Navy ships and on Navy liberty ashore as well as rescues at sea--including the famous sinking of the Mary E in the 1976 Miami-Nassau race. There are also evocative stories of idyllic cruises and places like Nantucket Scandinavia Greece and the coasts of the United States.Robinson''s stories are peopled with a warm amusing and frequently dramatic cast of characters including yachts themselves--ranging from sailing skiffs to large ocean-racing machines and most things in between--old and new large and small in storm and calm. His has been a rich sailing life and his stories tell of it with fascination and inescapable entertainment.