Sailing writer Herb McCormick has been chronicling his adventures and travels for over three decades. An anthology of his best profiles and articles, including first person accounts of sailing in such classic events as the Sydney-Hobart Race and rounding Cape Horn, Gone to the Sea is an eclectic collection of stories that range from a prophetic cruise with his daughter; to an in-depth post mortem of solo sailor Mike Plant’s final, mysterious voyage; to what makes Americas’ Cup legend Dennis Conner tick.

The former editor-in-chief of Cruising World magazine and yachting correspondent for The New York Times, McCormick has sailed over 75,000 offshore miles including the historic Around the Americas expedition via the Northwest Passage and Cape Horn. An award-winning journalist, he’s earned the NMMA Director’s Award and the BoatUS Monk Farnham Award, and his work has received numerous First Place prizes in Boating Writers International’s annual writing contest. A fifth-generation native of Newport, Rhode Island, Herb McCormick has been racing and cruising from above the Arctic Circle to Antarctica-and chronicling his adventures and travels in magazines, newspapers and on the Internet-for over three decades. He lives in his hometown of Newport, R.I. with his daughter Maggie.