If you love the sailing life, this book is for you. The islands, the clear water and the characters one finds on them inhabit these pages. From an unlikely encounter with an Anglican monk on a sailing vacation to a guy arrested for sleeping off a binge in St. John to what happens when a lone sailor rescues a woman marooned because her charter-mates chuck her overboard to the tale of a cigarette-bumming parrot to Sunday church in the harbor to a life-threatening love affair to what happens when a lifelong sailing couple decide to take a voyage for all time... you will laugh and cry and be inspired from beginning to end. These stories were written from the author's firsthand experience or based on crazy conversations overheard in some island bar. Armchair sailors and salty dogs alike are invited come on board this book for an enjoyable voyage.