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Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family
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by Nathaniel Philbrick

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A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two.

"There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow--the wind howling and spray flying as my Sunfish and I punched through the waves to the finish."

In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living with his family on Nantucket, feeling stranded and longing for that thrill of victory he once felt after winning a national sailing championship in his youth. Was it a midlife crisis? It was certainly a watershed for the journalist-turned-stay-at-home dad, who impulsively decided to throw his hat into the ring, or water, again.

With the bemused approval of his wife and children, Philbrick used the off-season on the island as his solitary training ground, sailing his tiny Sunfish to its remotest corners, experiencing the haunting beauty of its tidal creeks, inlets, and wave-battered sandbars. On ponds, bays, rivers, and finally at the championship on a lake in the heartland of America, he sailed through storms and memories, racing for the prize, but finding something unexpected about himself instead.

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  • Title Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Together
  • Author Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books
  • Publication date 2018-03-06
  • Features Maps
  • ISBN 9780143132097 / 0143132091
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Sports & Recreation
  • Library of Congress subjects Sailors, Sailboat racing
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017024034
  • Dewey Decimal Code 797.124

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  • Booklist, 02/01/2018, Page 13
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2018, Page 0

About the author

Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award; Mayflower, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Bunker Hill, winner of the New England Book Award; Sea of Glory; The Last Stand; Why Read Moby Dick?; Valiant Ambition; and Away Off Shore.

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