title: The Troller Yacht Book: A Powerboater's Guide to Crossing Oceans
author:  George Buehler 
description: [George] Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding is one of the best-selling boatbuilding books of the past decade. Hundreds of Buehler's rugged, inexpensive sailboats cruise the world's oceans, and his new ultra-economical powerboat designs are quickly proving just as popular. He lives on Whidbey Island, Washington.
zlib_text: _Close Reach_ is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  
  A Hydra eBook Original
  
  Copyright © 2014 by Jonathan S. Moore
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Published in the United States of America by Hydra, an imprint of Random
  House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New
  York.
  
  HYDRA is a registered trademark and the HYDRA colophon is a trademark of
  Random House LLC.
  
  eBook ISBN 978-0-553-39094-0
  
  Cover design and illustration: © David G. Stevenson
  
  Illustration of the _S/V Freefall_ : Robert Perry, Robert H. Perry Yacht
  Designers LLC
  
  [www.readhydra.com](http://www.readhydra.com)
  
  v3.1
  
  > This is for Maria Wang, Jon Wilson, and Nathaniel Boyer. I’d sail anywhere
  > with the three of you.
  
   **Contents**
  
  > [ _Cover_](Moor_9780553390940_epub_cvi_r1.htm)
  
  > [ _Title Page_](Moor_9780553390940_epub_tp_r1.htm)
  
  >  _Copyright_
  
  >  _Dedication_
  
  > Part One: Dead Reckoning
  
  > Chapter 1
  
  > Chapte