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Travel by Sail

Sailing my cutter Sea Bird around the Cape of Good Hope

When most of the fleet tacked, I kept going straight — around the world, down into the Southern Ocean and across North Carolina’s skinniest waters. These are my sailing journals going back to 1992. Plus the practical stuff I learned the hard way, from repairing a broken tiller to provisioning a small boat.


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Bernie Harberts riding mules, flowers from the homestead, and sailboat Sea Bird, adventures by horse, mule, sail and homestead