Then there is Ted Reynolds, probably the first teen-age navigator of a globe-circling sailing yacht.
The third member of the crew is Nick Mikami, from Hiroshima—the first Japanese yachtsman to sail around the world.
Beside me is Barbara Reynolds, surely the most charming circumnavigating yachtswoman I have yet had the pleasure of meeting.
Finally—here is Dr. Earle Reynolds, whose sole claim to distinction is that he is the first, and only, skipper ever to sail around the world with all these wonderful people.
Fellow yachtsmen, both deep sea and dry land, both cockpit and armchair, here we are—all in the same boat.
DEDICATED TO
“All those men who want to go to sea and never do—” (Jessica’s Journal) and to their long-suffering wives.
AUTHORS’ NOTE
For simplicity, this collaboration is presented from the point of view of the Skipper