More than just a book about sailing, Go for the Green is a clarion call to bring sailing out of the doldrums and into an expanded role as a catalyst for the more environmentally sensitive enjoyment of the sea. As a former Coast Guard Officer, active racer, cruiser and yacht designer, author Garry Hoyt combines a lifetime of sailing experience, with a weather eye to uncover the new challenges of global warming and the need for energy independence.

His prediction that carbon based fuels will eventually draw the same degree of social scorn that smoking now receives, creates an automatic need for ingenuity in the harnessing of sail and solar power as better alternatives for water based recreation. To encourage readers along that path, Hoyt presents a philosophy and a variety of new design solutions to stimulate more creative design development. He makes his case in a simple, readable style that will interest all those who love the sea.

For a number of years I have watched with growing concern, while America slipped into a pattern where entitlements seem to outweigh opportunity in public policy. This book contains ideas to reverse that trend and reassert the free enterprise principles that made America the envy of the world.

Set in the 1960's this is the story of a compelling attraction between a divorced American Ex-marine and a Puerto Rican woman of unusual beauty. From bare fisted, bawdy house brawls, to racially tinged sailing escapades in the Virgin Islands, to passionate encounters in Old San Juan, Brad Fichton pursues the scintillating but elusive Mercedes Cordova. While followng the twists and turns of this intense love affair, the plot delves incisively into the complex world of Island politics, providing rare insights into the deep seated, emotional ambivalence Puerto Ricans feel over their relationship with the United States. The reader will come away with the pleasure of a rousing tale, plus a new understanding of the simmering nationalism and divided loyalties that fuel the current unrest on this detached and little understood part of America. Cosmetically classified as "The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico"--the island remains essentially an American colony, torn between strong economic dependence on the U.S. and equally strong longings for its own identity. How the main characters struggle to make sense and find love in this tangled, ploitical web makes for an interesting read that will instruct as well as entertain.

More than just a book about sailing, Go for the Green is a clarion call to bring sailing out of the doldrums and into an expanded role as a catalyst for the more environmentally sensitive enjoyment of the sea. As a former Coast Guard Officer, active racer, cruiser and yacht designer, author Garry Hoyt combines a lifetime of sailing experience, with a weather eye to uncover the new challenges of global warming and the need for energy independence.

His prediction that carbon based fuels will eventually draw the same degree of social scorn that smoking now receives, creates an automatic need for ingenuity in the harnessing of sail and solar power as better alternatives for water based recreation. To encourage readers along that path, Hoyt presents a philosophy and a variety of new design solutions to stimulate more creative design development. He makes his case in a simple, readable style that will interest all those who love the sea.

Ambientada en los anos 1960, esta es la historia de una irresistible atraccion entre un divorciado ex Marine estadounidense y una mujer puertorriquena de belleza inusual. Desde peleas a punos limpios en un burdel, a aventuras de navegacion racialmente matizadas en las Islas Virgenes, a encuentros apasionados en Viejo San Juan, Brad Fichton lucha por la vivaz pero evasiva Mercedes Cordova. Mientras sigue las vueltas y los giros de esta intensa aventura amorosa, la trama se profundiza mordazmente en el complejo mundo de la politica de la Isla, proporcionando raras perspicacias de la firmemente arraigada ambivalencia emocional que sienten los puertorriqueno por su relacion con los Estados Unidos. El lector terminara con el placer de un relato emocionante, ademas de un nuevo entendimiento del boyante nacionalismo y las lealtades divididas que encienden el actual conflicto en esta separada y poco entendida parte de America. Cosmeticamente clasificada como "El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico"--la isla continua siendo esencialmente una colonia americana, dividida entre fuerte dependencia economica de los Estados Unidos y equitativamente fuerte anhelo por su propia identidad. La manera en la que el personaje principal lucha por dar sentido y encontrar amor en esta enredada red politica hace esta una narracion interesante que instruira tanto como entretendra.