Former editor-in-chief of Cruising World magazine, yachting correspondent for The New York Times, McCormick received the National Marine Manufacturers Association's Directors Award and the BoatUS Monk Farnham Award for Editorial Excellence.Herb has earned numerous first-place prizes in Boating Writers International's annual competition and is author of three books including Gone to the Sea, and One Island, One Ocean - Around the Americas expedition via the Northwest Passage and Cape Horn.