This book contains 58 years of seamanship and ship’s husbandry distilled into more than 350 readable pages.

It is chock-full of technical information gathered during three circumnavigations and a lifetime of living aboard in foreign ports.​

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Chasing the Horizon is a delightfully demented Celebration of A Way of Life.

It is an outrageously funny, often touching, and continuously shocking tale of a modern sea gypsy.

Cap'n Fatty's story is too bizarre to be fiction.

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This book aims to assist the frugal, safety-conscious sailor in the purchase and repair of a modest sailboat capable of circumnavigating.

The core premise: There is little correlation between dollars spent and pleasure received when it comes to cruising offshore. Cheaper boats can be far more seaworthy than their expensive counterparts if the skipper’s money is spent wisely.

Heavy weather management is simple—there are only two basic rules.

The prudent mariner must control his vessel’s speed and its angle to the wind and seas.

That’s it. There’s nothing complicated about these concepts.

However, storm management can—and does—get complicated fast.​