Airborne is a good book by Wm F. Buckley

[Craig Weis]

AIRBORNE is William F. Buckley, Jr.'s description of his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends. The trip, for 15 years a dream, for 15 months a planned operation, was always a risk. One doesn't set out haphazardly in a small sailboat to cross 4,400 miles of ocean. Buckley's account of perils is, as one might expect, instructive, nonchalant and terrifying.

Interestingly everybody on board was required to keep a day to day log of there passage and at the end of the voyage all the spiral bond note books were give to Buckley, and that is the basis used to write Airborne.
skip.

[MHardy]

Reviving an old post here. I agree with Skip, Airborne is very good. I read it years ago. This summer, I read Buckley's other two sailing books, "Atlantic High" and "Racing Through Paradise". I think all three are now out of print, but worth seeking out from your local used book store or Amazon. I'm mostly a lake day-sailor and can only imagine the ocean crossings described in these books.

[nicktulloh]

I couldn't read anything from Buckley given his extreme political views. He gave the commencement speech at the graduation of one of my sisters from Kimball Union Academy in VT. I've never experienced such a concentrated amount of bs presented so poorly. He's a not inconsequential part of the reason we're in such  mess right now.