Swan - the Second Voyage
by Moore, Jim 1936- (James L. Moore)
pub. by Sheridan House, NY - 1994 -     isbn 0-924486-45-7 - - LCCN 93-45463 - - - Maps on end papers -- illustrations in text - - illus of Swan p. vi -- Preface p. vii-viii -- there are 15 chapters Photos after p.98 - - Epilogue p. 207-210 -- 212 pages.
After finishing their circumnavigation Jim and Molly Moore settled for a few years in Hawaii settled in and worked for a living, she as a nurse, and he formed a company with a friend doing carpentry etc. on houses as well as working on boats. The company took a job in New Zealand, for a few months, then back -home- to Hawaii. After some 4 years they both decided that they were happiest when sailing, so refurbished the Swan the Cascade 36, a 36 ft. cruising sloop which they had put together and headed out. (Cascade 36 has LOA 36 ft, LWL 29 ft, Beam 10 ft, Draft 5.5 ft. It displaced 14,000 lbs (not cruising loaded).

In 1989 They sailed to Portland, Oregon. The description of this leg of their cruise is a model of how to do it gracefully. One new gadget on the boat was a SatNav which could display their location ever 45 minutes. Jim had always navigated with a sextant, time and tables. He did not totally trust the SatNav (this is in the pre-GPS era) so also used the more standard astro navigation system, which Jim was good at.

They worked their way down the coast continuing to refurb the Swan including -re-powering- meaning installing a new diesel engine. They spent some time in the Gulf of California where they really enjoyed that part of their cruise. The Gulf of California is between Baja California and mainland Mexico, sometimes called the Sea of Cortez. During this time Jim finished negotiations to have his first book -By Way of the Wind- published.
They traversed the Panama Canal and devoted nearly a chapter describing not only their passage, but also a fair amount of the history of the Canal. It should be noted that their passage was after the Canal was given to Panama to run and the Panamanian canal people had not yet gotten up to speed on canal maintenance.

They sailed on to the Cayman Islands and found them much different from their last visit in 1981. Then sailed on to Tampa, Florida where they took the shortcut and canal across Lake Okeechbee then north offshore to Beaufort, North Carolina where their cruise ended. In the epilogue they explain how they live their lives as a couple, and how it works for them, after years and over 40,000 miles sailed. For them it is a shared life.

~2021-10-25~

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