Barry, Neil

Neil Barry lives aboard his 50-foot sloop, Imagine, cruising the East Coast of the U.S., the Bahamas, and points south. Born in Sydney, Australia, he began sailing at 12 years old, graduating to racing yachts in college. In 1977, he took time off from sailing to attend graduate school, travel the world, raise a family, and build a career as an academic. His next boat arrived 13 years later, a 28-foot cutter on a small man-made lake in the Midwest. Seventeen years passed before he heard the call of the sea and foreign ports. His Chicken of the Sea trilogy is a new kind of novel, one that stimul...