An Obsessive Sort of Sailor

SailMagazine by SAIL magazine

Jul 15, 202421:45Society & Culture

Erskine Childers may be best known to sailors as the author of the classic Riddle of the Sands. But as SAIL Cruising Editor Charles Doane recounts, he was also a gun runner for Irish independence on his 44-foot, Colin Ar...

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