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Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Together

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A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two.

“There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow—the wind howling and spray flying as my Sunfish and I punched through the waves to the finish.”


In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living...