Re: M_Boats: Winter reading

I'm reluctant to mention this book because it's truly an example of bad seamanship and it's consequences, but it was so exciting I finished it cover to cover without standing up. Three inexperienced teenagers took a poor condition 27 foot Albin Vega through the Roaring Forties and Furious Fifties in a storm to Antarctica and back. They just barely survived. Berserk: My Voyage to the Antarctic in a Twenty-Seven-Foot Sailboat by David Mercy Sincerely, Tyler Davis, CA M15 #157 "Defiant"