Serendipity may be an overused word when referencing life experiences and one's "path." But the term often, positively, describes lucky moments in which the stars align and the good train leaves the station with you aboard. The term is also used often in the old-boat universe to describe how a seemingly ephemeral object, a ship, can exist for so long through a series of human moments of affection and pride. Will Sofrin's new book, All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World, offers a special, tightly packaged vignette exploring the serendipity of his brief but compelling career as a shipwright and deckhand, and the existence of a vessel that if not for the exquisite writing of a landlubber English author, would have likely died many deaths.
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