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More than just a book about sailing, Go for the Green is a clarion call to bring sailing out of the doldrums and into an expanded role as a catalyst for the more environmentally sensitive enjoyment of the sea. As a former Coast Guard Officer, active racer, cruiser and yacht designer, author Garry Hoyt combines a lifetime of sailing experience, with a weather eye to uncover the new challenges of global warming and the need for energy independence.

His prediction that carbon based fuels will eventually draw the same degree of social scorn that smoking now receives, creates an automatic need...

More than just a book about sailing, Go for the Green is a clarion call to bring sailing out of the doldrums and into an expanded role as a catalyst for the more environmentally sensitive enjoyment of the sea. As a former Coast Guard Officer, active racer, cruiser and yacht designer, author Garry Hoyt combines a lifetime of sailing experience, with a weather eye to uncover the new challenges of global warming and the need for energy independence.

His prediction that carbon based fuels will eventually draw the same degree of social scorn that smoking now receives, creates an automatic need...

Set in the 1960's this is the story of a compelling attraction between a divorced American Ex-marine and a Puerto Rican woman of unusual beauty. From bare fisted, bawdy house brawls, to racially tinged sailing escapades in the Virgin Islands, to passionate encounters in Old San Juan, Brad Fichton pursues the scintillating but elusive Mercedes Cordova. While followng the twists and turns of this intense love affair, the plot delves incisively into the complex world of Island politics, providing rare insights into the deep seated, emotional ambivalence Puerto Ricans feel over their relationship...

Ambientada en los anos 1960, esta es la historia de una irresistible atraccion entre un divorciado ex Marine estadounidense y una mujer puertorriquena de belleza inusual. Desde peleas a punos limpios en un burdel, a aventuras de navegacion racialmente matizadas en las Islas Virgenes, a encuentros apasionados en Viejo San Juan, Brad Fichton lucha por la vivaz pero evasiva Mercedes Cordova. Mientras sigue las vueltas y los giros de esta intensa aventura amorosa, la trama se profundiza mordazmente en el complejo mundo de la politica de la Isla, proporcionando raras perspicacias de la firmemente...

For a number of years I have watched with growing concern, while America slipped into a pattern where entitlements seem to outweigh opportunity in public policy. This book contains ideas to reverse that trend and reassert the free enterprise principles that made America the envy of the world.