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Interior photographs courtesy of Charles Wilkins
Map by Eric Leinberger
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To be complete
one must hold the whole sun
wholly
in the marrow of the bone
One must celebrate
how to be one
with everyone
yet forever alone
DOROTHY LIVESAY
It began on a boat, like The Tempest, like Moby Dick, a finite enclosure of floating space, a model of the world in little.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Big Blue’s Transatlantic Crossing
PROLOGUE
WEEKS LATER WHEN I spoke to my buddy Steve Roedde, who had been a mainstay of the voyage, he was still rattled, still aggrieved about it all. He said among other things that he had been unable to free himself of the specter of what might have been: better discipline, better cargo control, a lighter boat, a better chosen departure date, more confident and forthright leadership—in all a more Homeric journey and, as imagined in the palmy days of the project, perhaps a world record.