Nov. 19/2025: Speaking of Tom Cunliffe, here’s a bit of serendipitous coincidence. Both he and Clare Allcard, who met for the first time back in 2016 in Andorra, when I met Clare for the first time, have published new books just about simultaneously. Except Tom’s book is a novel, his very first. And just as...
March 23/2022: As soon as I finished reading Chris Bowman’s excellent memoir about building boats in Bequia and sailing with Bob Dylan, I was inspired to revisit this book. It is a curious volume, part cruising memoir and part scholarly treatise. Its author, Douglas C. Pyle, arrived in the islands in 1968 aboard an old...
