The Boy, Me, and the Cat

Charming has become perhaps a devalued word and is a little old-fashioned. So is this book, and the charm is in its period and its attitudes. It is eminently readable, straight-forward in its style and very interesting from a variety of viewpoints.

Be assured it is not just for sailors. An account of a vacation cruise in a small 19th century cat-boat (a sailing craft with one tall mast set well forward) down from the author’s home in Massachusetts along the coast down into Florida.

Henry Plummer is a remarkably capable man and a fond father – who treats problems with wit and tempers the challenge of small-boat cruising with fine meals (recipes sometimes included!). Written originally solely for family and friends – painfully show more “pricked-out” in the old duplicating process and then published on the insistence of his readers – for us too to enjoy this charming story. show less

Funny, entertaining marvelous little book about a boat trip from Massachusetts to Florida early in the 20th century. I read it as preparation for my own boat trip from the Chesapeake Bay to Miami and the Bahamas. For those who read Dutch: http://detreknaarhetzuiden.blogspot.com/2009/11/dag-een-van-deale-tot-solomons.h...