Only a Damn Fool: The Pacific Voyage of the Dagny Taggart

273 pp. Only a damn fool would venture across the mighty Pacific Ocean in a new sailboat, against the prevailing winds, at a time dangerously close to the typhoon season, with an amateur crew, none of whom had made the trip before-in fact none of whom had ever made any long sailing voyage before. Perhaps that's not entirely true. Perhaps one shouldn't be considered a damn fool for making such a trip if her or she were a master mariner master mechanic, master carpenter etc... or even a rugged son of a bitch! Who would make such a voyage? The answer to that is on the back flap.