Book Review

Four ships are in this book. The ghost ship is the old Boston clipper, Northern Light. In 185 she set the 76-day record for a voyage under sail from San Francisco Bay to Boston Harbor around grim Cape Horn (no canal shortcut then). ...The second ship is Great American, lost at sea. Third is Great American II. Rich Wilson, skipper, and Bill Biewenga, sailed her around Cape Horn hoping to beat the old clipper's time, two men in a modern single-masted fiberglass twin hull 53 feet long, against a couple of hundred seamen long ago in an oaken square-rigger five times that length.

...an honest example of courage under challenge, and a generous plan for participation by young people, are here in a shared adventure on the salt sea.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt