The Accidental Captain: 20 years of learning to sail by trial and terror

Glenn Patron was an asthmatic, bookish and timid kid who spent a great part of my childhood living a life of adventure vicariously through the stories he read in the sanctuary of my bedroom in the suburbs of New York City. As an adult, Glenn stumbled through life on the edge of failure until he met and married an adventurous saltwater lady. Emboldened by her support they found and rebuilt an abandoned 30’ sloop, commencing a lifetime journey of humorous mishaps and triumphs that challenged hi…