The Voyage of the Cormorant

By Christian Beamish, Ken Perkins (illustrator),

Book cover of The Voyage of the Cormorant: A Memoir of the Changeable Sea

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Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer's Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality and how…

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Building your own sailboat from scratch, then sailing it from California down to Baja, camping, and surfing along the way: how can that not be a cool story? Christian Beamish manages the perfect blend of introspection and backstory with descriptions of sea, sky, land, and the people he meets along the way.

From Patrick's list on first-person narratives about the outdoors.