A wonderful and interesting gentleman ...

EIGHT BELLS
Dodge Morgan, the entrepreneur turned sailor who set a solo, non-stop world
rounding record in 1986, died over the weekend after falling ill at his home
on Snow Island Maine. In 1986, Morgan sailed his Hood-designed 60-foot
cutter, American Promise, past a line at St. David's Light in Bermuda from
which he had started 150-days earler. His time knocked weeks off the solo
world record as it stood. Morgan, a wonderful raconteur, wrote of his
adventures in American Promise Circles the World. Funeral details have not
been announced. -- Tony Chamberlain