Cruising
Channeling Eric Hiscock
Story & photos by Nico Walsh, Cruising Club of America, Boston/Gulf of Maine station In 1978, as a young college student in London, I found myself emerging from a Dockyards bookstore owning a copy of Eric Hiscock’s Wandering Under Sail (1939). Hiscock and his wife Susan became famous for their extensive voyages and their cruising accounts and manuals, including Voyaging Under Sail, Sou’West in Wanderer IV, and many others. I have since read most of…