This is the story of a young man’s first adventures on the high seas. In November of 2002, Scott Atkins dropped everything when the opportunity to sail from California to Germany aboard a sixty-eight foot brigantine arose. The adventure that ensued took him to eight countries in seven months. He experiences gales and squalls on the high seas, monkeys and waterfalls in Costa Rica, and volcanoes and snow in the Azores. From a captain refusing to be boarded by the Mexican navy to a crew member nearly falling overboard in the North Atlantic, this book recounts every adventure encountered during the ten thousand mile Voyage of the Atair—not from the perspective of a seasoned captain, but that of a young deckhand setting off on his first voyage.
