PassageMaker - August 2010

CONTRIBUTORS

CHRIS CASWELL has owned more boats than he wants his wife or his banker to know about.

An award-winning journalist for
decades, his book The Greatest
Sailing Stories Ever Told has set
new sales records. Chris has penned six other books on
boating, including Trailerable Sailboats and The Sailing
Fanatic: Timeless Reflections on Water, Wind, and Wave.

He can be seen on television nationwide as host of the Marine Voyager series on the Speed Channel and has appeared on Oprah as a guest expert. When not cruising with his wife, Rhea, in Scotland, Thailand, or the islands of the Caribbean, Chris parks his seabag in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Turn to page 54 to join Chris for a tour of the
delightfully spacious Ocean Alexander 60 Trawler.

SCOTT AND MARY FLANDERS
have been cruising the globe
aboard Egret, their 2001
Nordhavn 46 trawler, since
September 2006. They are
currently wintering in Fremantle,
Western Australia, and are enjoying inland touring.

Next, they will cross the Indian Ocean via the islands of Mauritius and Réunion, east of Madagascar, and then they’ll cruise on to South Africa. They plan to return to Florida in March 2011; afterward, they will head out to sea once again.

In this issue, Mary and Scott take us on a remarkable austral-winter voyage along the coast of New Zealand’s South and Stewart Islands.

JIM RAYCROFT, an award-winning marine, lifestyle, and location photographer, is never far from the sea. Operating out of studios in Boston and Ft.

Lauderdale, he has spent the last
quarter century shooting yachts, travel destinations,
exotic cars, and other glamorous subjects around the
world. Jim’s work appears regularly in national and
international features and advertisements. He has served
as president and on the board of the New England
chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers.
When not traveling on assignment, he lives aboard his
43-foot Albin trawler, Dauntless.

Jim shares a story about a close-to-home cruise to charming Newburyport, Massachusetts, on page 96.

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