Casey, Don

Don Casey credits the around-the-world voyage of Robin Lee Graham, featured in "National Geographic" in the late 1960s, with opening his eyes to the world beyond the shoreline. After graduation from the University of Texas he moved to south Florida, where he began to spend virtually all his leisure time messing about in boats.

In 1983 he abandoned a career in banking to devote more time to cruising and writing. His work combining these two passions soon began to appear in many popular sailing and boating magazines. In 1986 he co-authored "Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach", an immedia...