Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Together Audiobook (Free)

A charming early memoir of midlife from the bestselling writer of Mayflower and In the Heart of the ocean, recounting his try to recapture a national sailing championship he’d won at twenty-two.

‘There have been something elemental and everything consuming in regards to a Sunfish. Nothing could compare towards the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow–the blowing wind howling and apply flying as my Sunfish and I punched through the waves to the final.’

In the planting season of 1992 (eight years before the publication of about Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Collectively In the Heart of the Sea), Nat Philbrick was in his past due thirties, coping with his family on Nantucket, sense stranded and longing for the thrill of victory of the national sailing championship he previously won fifteen years earlier. 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 in to the band, or water, once again. Using the bemused authorization of his wife and children, Philbrick used the off-season over the isle as his solitary teaching ground, cruising his small Sunfish to its remotest sides, exceptional haunting beauty of its tidal creeks, inlets, and influx battered sand bars. On ponds, bays, rivers, and finally at the championship on the lake in the heartland of America, he sailed through storms and remembrances, racing for the reward, but acquiring something unforeseen about himself rather.

A warm, funny, and modest book on the subject of the journey home for just one sailor and his family members.