A few months back, @pvh gave Rek and I a copy of Coffey's Sailing Back In Time about the Farrells who sailed a junk rig called China Cloud up and down the coast between the 50s and 90s.

I only just finished it, I had saved it to be a summer read and we just happened to be anchored where the book happens so I picked it up. Their account of the lives of people along the coast at that time is really interesting, and sad, in a similar way to Moitessier who comes back to Tahiti to find a parking lot where he had built a farm. It would take a massive cataclysm for the coast to begin to heal. The book gave me intense weltschmerz.

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