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by Jimmy and Iv an Cornell

(second edition, 2018 ; Cornell

Sailing Ltd.; $ 80 )

Anyone planning an extended

voyage will fi nd a useful tool in

the just-updated and rereleased

second edition of Cornell’s

Ocean Atlas, a book chock-full

of pilot charts and tips for

sailing the world’s oceans.

The book is the handiwork

of author and circumnavigator

Jimmy Cornell and his son,

Ivan, also a sailor and a com-

puter scientist who developed

a program to collect and

process weather data from a

number of sources, including

NOAA satellite observations.

The Cornells published

their fi rst collection of pilot

charts in 2012, based on 20

years’ worth of satellite data.

Previously, pilot charts relied

mostly on shipboard weather

observations.

The new atlas includes 80

monthly pilot charts, showing

wind speed and direction,

currents, the extent of the In-

tertropical Convergence Zone,

common tracks of tropical

storms and the mean location

of high-pressure cells in each

hemisphere. There are also

60 detailed charts of the most

commonly sailed ocean routes.

And the book has been refor-

matted to introduce monthly

windgrams for those routes that

summarize the information in

each wind rose along the way.

While Lady Luck often

determines if you’ll be in the

right place at the right time,

Cornell’s Ocean Atlas can help

you avoid being in the wrong

place in wrong season — the

goal of every navigator.

—Mark Pillsbury

Memoir of a Skipjack

by Randolph George ( 201 7; Salt

Water Media; $ 1 7)

In 1993, Randolph George

purchased the skipjack Martha

Lewis “to keep it from its likely

fate of rotting in the mud in

some creek along the bay.” In

the process of restoring her, a

project led by his brother-in-

law, boatbuilder Allen Rawl,

George says, “she shared with

us a rich lore from her past and

introduced us to the people

who had created her and

depended on her for a living.”

His book, Memoir of

a Skipjack, details the

intertwined families, builders,

captains and crews from

Wingate, Maryland, whom the

Martha Lewis touched. In that

sense, it is less a memoir than

an oral history and priceless

gathering of many stories of

a time and a place that are

long gone.

First-person interviews with

family members and friends

give us a rich picture of the

people who were part of the

skipjack’s life. These wonderful

interviews, along with rare

family photos, give this memoir

its richness and enduring value.

They are supplemented by

appendices detailing Wingate

family genealogy going back

as far as the late 1700s, and a

detailed listing of every single

skipjack, alive or dead, that

George and Rawl were able to

document.

For anyone interested in

Chesapeake history and its

“once-mighty skipjack fl eet,”

this book is a must-have.

—Wendy Mitman Clarke