title: Bound For Roque Island: Sailing Maine and the World, Second Edition
author: R. J. Rubadeau
description: R.J. Rubadeau has spent the last forty years engaged in a smoldering love affair with boats and the wonderful things they do for a persons soul. Logging over 250,000 sea miles during an amateur and professional career in the elite world of open ocean racing aboard the worlds legendary yachts, the author has sailed with and against the icons of the international sailing hall of fame. He has entertained generations of sailors with his writings about the crazy trouble people can get into when they cast off dock lines and go sailing. Rubadeau has honed his communication skills in various shore-side occupations: university lecturer, grant writer, newspaper columnist, politician, speech-writer for an Alaskan governor (No, not that one!), public policy analyst, and twenty years as a professional political strategist. He is a frequent contributor to many sailing magazines and is also an award winning poet. Rubadeau and his wife Mary, best friends and partners since their teens, live with their horses and a menagerie of animals at ten-thousand feet in the Rocky Mountains near the town of Telluride, Colorado. They base Dog Star, their familys historic seventy-nine year old ketch and primary summer preoccupation, on Mt. Desert Island in Maine.
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  An Inland Voyage
  
  
  [PREFACE TO THE FIRST
  EDITION](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos5437)
  
  [ANTWERP TO BOOM](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos8467)
  
  [ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos16545)
  
  [THE ROYAL SPORT NAUTIQUE](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos26166)
  
  [AT MAUBEUGE](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos36415)
  
  [ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos45197)
  
  [PONT-SUR-SAMBRE](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos55518)
  
  [PONT-SUR-SAMBRE](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos66107)
  
  [ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos75130)
  
  [AT LANDRECIES](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos84482)
  
  [SAMBRE AND OISE CANAL](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos92897)
  
  [THE OISE IN FLOOD](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split_001.html#filepos102123)
  
  [ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE](An%20Inland%20Voyage_split