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Herb and Nancy Payson spent six and a half years cruising the Pacific with their sizable brood of teenaged children packed into the 36-foot ketch SEA FOAM. Their globe-spanning travels and side-splitting adventures are recounted in Blown Away, a sort of Swiss Family Robinson by way of the Marx... read more

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It's been 22 years since we cast off Sea Foam's lines and headed south from San Diego; 17 years since the original publisher of Blown Away sent us an advance which found and cheered us, broke and discouraged, in the Gilbert Islands; 15 years since the book was published; 15 years since we sold our beloved, old, wooden ketch, Sea Foam, and moved to Maine.

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  1. Herb Payson (Author)

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  1. adventure
  2. cruising
  3. family sailing
  4. humor
  5. memoir
  6. nonfiction
  7. sailing
  8. sea
  9. travelogue 
 

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