cruising world yarns

"Is there a secret to writing well? Yes. It is the truth. Whenever a paragraph sags, I simply ask myself, 'What is the truth here, Fatty? What are you really trying to say?' What I want to do is to write another good sentence." Cruising World Yarns has 3 dozen of Cap'n Fatty's best sailing and cruising stories from the pages of Cruising World magazine.

Cap’n Fatty Goodlander has lived aboard various sailing vessels for 48 of his 56 years. He has written numerous books-including his autobiographical comedy Chasing the Horizon. At various times, Fatty has been a professional actor, a radio broadcaster, and a newspaper writer. His latest project was a series of summer travel spots for National Public Radio. He and his wife Carolyn are currently (Nov 2008) anchored off the tiny rubber-tapping village of Ban Kho En, Phuket, Thailand in the middle of their second circumnavigation. He is an editor-at-large of Cruising World magazine.