by Frederic Fenger
Fenger cruised in the small sailing canoe Yakaboo among the islands of the Lesser Antilles from Grenada to the Virgin Islands. This is the story of that cruise. As Fenger himself states in his preface, " . . .I have attempted neither a history nor a guide book but have spun out the yarn of a lone cruise in a sailing canoe. I went to study the islands at first hand and in the craft which I believed would be most suitable for the purpose--a deep-sea sailing canoe." Fenger is well known as an accomplished cruiser and the developer of unique sailing rigs and the Yakaboo was the second sailing canoe he had designed and built and this cruise was the longest ocean sailing cruise undertaken in such a craft at this time; (and perhaps to date). It is filled with good seamanship and good humour and is an essential addition to the canoeists' library or for anyone interested in the history of the Caribbean. Fifty-seven illustrations.
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