Crossing

""[An] honest, page-turning account of a full-on, big ocean passage, the magic and tension of Crossing is its lovely, patient prose and the all-in confrontation it forces between shipmates and skippers, fathers and sons, dreams and reality, mystery and understanding —and the soul-settling manhood this Telemachus finally earns as captain of his own fate."" -- David Michaelis, author of <i>Eleanor</i> “In Crossing, a gifted diarist takes on the challenge of that familiar dictum, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ Vincent marries the absorbing tale of his first Transatlantic voyage under sail with the sometimes heart-wrenching history of his unconventional family, the end result an unflinchingly honest gem of a book.” -- Pete Bodo,  award-winning sportswriter, former outdoors columnist for <i>The New York Times</i>, author or co-author of eight books, including <I>A Champion's Mind</I> and <I>Courts of Babylon.</I> ""Glyn Vincent’s Crossing takes its place by Robert Stone’s Outerbridge Reach as a contemporary reckoning with personal history in the form of a white-knuckled sailing voyage. A son in search of the truth about his slippery father in an unsteady history that veers from Algeria to New York, to Paris, and back again, this conflicted and brutally honest story had me from start to finish."" -- Rebecca Chace, <i>New York Times</i> Notable author of <i>Leaving Rock Harbor</i>