The Log of the Skipper's Wife
Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1979. 160, wraps, illus. Diary of Dorothea Moulton, documenting her trip from Puerto Rico to Boston in the early 1900's, aboard some of the last of the vaunted Maine windjammers. "Little did Dorothea Moulton know, when she agreed to chaperone her schoolteacher friend and her friend's husband-to-be on a sailing trip from Puerto Rico to Boston, that she would wind up as the 'skipper's wife' herself. She did, and for the next two decades Dorothea spent a large part of her married life aboard her husband's various ships, sailing around the world, visiting mysterious and glamorous places. " This is the candid, witty diary Dorothea Balano kept of her travels aboard a Maine schooner that plied the trade routes from Maine to Puerto Rico. This early account begins before the journey and continues several years after they married. Edited by her son, James Balano, the journal contains some very frank observations on life and marriage at sea. Condition: good.
Keywords: Nautical, Puerto Rico, Port Clyde, Maine, Dorothea Balano, Seamanship, Rio de Janeiro, Barbados, Windjammers, Schooners
ISBN: 089272062X
[Book #40211]
Price: $25.65