Contents

Epigraph

Part One

Chelone

One

Forget what you’ve read about the ocean. Forget white sails on…

Two

We left Portland harbor on the Fourth of July, entering the Gulf…

Three

For the first days after the squall line passed, Rex and I were…

Four

We ate dinner at the round teak table: hamburgers, canned green beans…

Part Two

Houndfish Cay

Five

Imagine a woman rising on a dark, December morning, cursing beneath…

Six

Three weeks in Bermuda while Chelone sat on the hard, scorched electronics…

Seven

There were three places to meet friends for a drink on Houndfish Cay.

Eight

Imagine a woman stumbling along a solitary trail, the eastern horizon dark…

Part Three

Blue Water

Nine

The Echo Island airport was roughly the size of a living room.

Ten

Amy Kreisler opened the door to find a barrel-chested man in an orange…

Eleven

It was dark by the time I arrived at Twin Lakes.

Twelve

The day of the wedding dawned bright and clear, but just before…

Thirteen

The whisker poles were not long and straight, as I’d imagined.


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