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Fall
2004
Cynthia
Barnes has more than 15 years of writing experience and
has been a self-described “word wonk” ever since she won her
first spelling bee in second grade. An avid global traveler, she’s
written for National Geographic, Premiere,
M Lifestyle, and the Detroit
Free Press. She recently spent two months in the West African nation
of Mali on caravan with the Tamasheq, the “blue people” of
the Sahara.
Charles
J. Doane has been messing around in boats since his summers
as a child on an island in the mouth of the Kennebeck River in Maine.
Since abandoning a career as a lawyer, he has cruised extensively on both
sides of the Atlantic—in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and North
America—aboard a variety of vessels. Formerly a managing editor
at Offshore, an associate editor at
Cruising World, and a senior editor
at Sail, he now lives full-time in
Maine and spends his free time exploring the coast.
Paul
Esterle had an early experience with bluewater cruising,
having arrived in this country with his war-bride mother on a liberty
ship from England. He went on to work around a variety of boats, including
building hovercrafts commercially. He and his wife, Pat, have produced
a variety of boating-oriented videos and CDs. They live in Delaware, where
he restores boats, writes, and lectures about marine maintenance.
Peter
Nichols spent ten years working as a professional yacht
captain, living and cruising aboard his own boat before turning to writing
full-time. He is the author of four books: Sea
Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat, Voyage
to the North Star, A Voyage for Madmen,
and Evolution’s Captain. He
has taught creative writing at Georgetown University, New York University,
and Bowdoin College. He lives in Maine.
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