Author of the critically acclaimed memoir FINGERPRINTS...A Coffeehouse Reader, Lew Decker has also written for the sailing magazines "Cruising World" and "Latitudes & Attitudes," and for "CQ," a magazine devoted to the amateur radio community. He spent several years building the forty-foot Norman Cross-designed trimaran "Sun Flower" and then cruised from California through the Panama Canal and up to the Florida Keys. After working as a professional yacht delivery skipper on the East Coast, he became a charter captain in the Bahamas and in the Virgin Islands. Lew has crossed the Atlantic under