Close encounters / Pete Goss -- The story of sailing / James Thurber -- The Fisherman's Cup races / Sterling Hayden -- The making of a yachtsman / Conrad Miller -- All at sea / Ray Whitaker -- Epilogue / Ernest K. Gann -- The boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton -- An August day's sail / Samuel Eliot Morison -- About Figaro / William Snaith -- The crystal coast / Tristan Jones -- Aloft on the Flying Cloud / Morley Roberts -- The sea and the wind that blows / E.B. White -- Overwhelmed / Captain James Riley -- Sailing alone around the world / Joshua Slocum -- Down spinnaker! / Philip Holland --Rendevous / Charles Rawlings -- Smith versus Lichtensteiger / Weston Martyr -- Being ashore / John Masefield -- Captain Jim and Reynard / Marjorie Young Burgess -- Yachtswoman solo / Ann Davison -- Daysail content? / David Kasanof -- Owen Chase's narrative / Owen Chase -- Kidnapped / William Albert Robinson -- Hornblower and the man who felt queer / C.S. Forester -- A Pacific passage / William F. Buckley -- Call me Ishmael / Herman Melville -- "100 tons of bronze, son" / Cleveland Amory -- Service in the Mediterranean / Admiral Lord Cochrane.