title: Auxiliary Sail Vessel Operations, 2nd Edition: For the Professional Sailor
author:  G. Andy Chase 
description: G. Andy Chase is a professor of marinetransportation at his alma mater, Maine Maritime Academy, and holds anunlimited masters license for power vessels and a 1600-ton license for sailingvessels.
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  Challenge of the Seventh Carrier
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Peter Albano
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © Peter Albano 1993
  
  Peter Albano has asserted her rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents
  Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  First published in 1993 by Kensington Publishing Corp.
  
  This edition published in 2018 by Endeavour Media Ltd.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Hugh Nolen Gilliland, Charles Tyszkiewicz, Ronald R. Kurz, John Jurovic,
  Michael R. Philbin, John J. Kuhn and Charles G. King who have endured my
  geriatric tennis with infinite patience.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  
  The author gratefully acknowledges:
  
  Otto and Eileen Schnepp and William Byer who so generously contributed their
  expertise on the Middle East;
  
  Master Mariner Donald Brandmeyer for his advice concerning nautical problems;
  
  Dale O. Swanson for lending his experience with World War II aircraft;
  
  Patricia Johnston, RN, and Susan A. Johnston, RN, who helped solve medical
  problems;
  
  Mary Annis, my wif