SAILING TO THE SUN

An editor of the magazine Adventure takes wife, small son and Cairn on a 30-foot auxiliary gaff sloop down the Atlantic Coast from New York to Florida and back. The record is pleasant, informal, filled with reports on landings, docks, the waterways; squalls and storms; the adjustment to a new way of life, the development of the baby into an unmanageable live wire, and the delightful slow tempo of the trip. Interchange with other boats, strandings, mishaps, land sorties, fishing, good and bad yachtsman's towns, incidents and adventures -- excellent reading for boat-minded.