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Lillian B. The Lillian B. is a forty-foot ocean going sailboat, a Baba 40’ designed by the renowned naval architect Bob Perry. She is a cutter rig, which translates to a single mast with a mainsail and two foresails. Her stern is canoe shape, to better accommodate following seas. Below decks, she has key amenities…

January 2004: The Pacific voyage of Thor Heyerdahl  in Kon Tiki, Henry Dana’s “Two Years before the Mast,” and Gauguin’s paintings of Tahiti have all been inspirations for the classical romantic dream of sailing the South Pacific, amplified, perhaps by a stereotypical mid-life restlessness. In defense of middle age, my own dream of sailing the…

The Lillian B. Maine to San Francisco via Tahiti 2003 – 2004 Foreword The following is a collection of personal e-mails chronicling the voyage of the 40’ sailboat, Lillian B., from Maine to San Francisco by way of Tahiti in 2004. It has been supplemented with photographs taken by various crewmembers. The majority of the…

This is a blog of the voyages of the sailboat Lillian. The site is under construction.