Salty readers rest assured, the high seas adventure is the longest and best part.
T he novel opens on a cool and foggy summer day on the coast of Maine. The year is 1901. A self-made granite tycoon is moodily supervising his three young sons as they haul gear down the lawn from the summer cottage to the dock. The boys are provisioning the family yacht, a forty-six foot schooner, the Double Eagle . They have been ordered by their father to leave home and not to return until September.