Halcyon Days: From A Dream To Reality

Rating:
Summary: A Disappointing Read
Review: A rather uninspiring account of this cruising couple's travels from North Carolina through the Bahamas. It basically reads like a boring transciption of the logbook. While it touts itself on the back cover as revealing "what it is like to live-aboard," in fact, the author barely describes the boat he is sailing, much less the unique challenges of living aboard. He provides very little personal insight into his liveaboard circumstances. (For example, he failed to mention he had a cat living aboard with them until nearly halfway through the book!) The author also does not provide much in the way of "local flavor," particularly with respect to the Bahamas -- very little about the Bahamian culture, the Bahamian people themselves, or his interactions with them. Instead, he prefers to monotonously recount on which buddy boat they had cocktails evening after evening after evening. Finally, the book is very poorly written, replete with both grammatical and typographical erros. Did anyone bother to proofread this book before it was published! Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this book. For a much more interesting and insightful read on the liveaboard/cruising life, I would instead recommend Alayne Main's "Sailing Promise," or Tania Aebi's "Maiden Voyage."