Into My Father's Wake

A solo sailing odyssey and journey of personal discovery in which the author, a former journalist and Wall street strategist, comes to terms with his dead father and learns the meaning of forgiveness.

Into My Father’s Wake tells the daring story of sailing solo from San Francisco to Hawaii and back on a sturdy red and white ketch named Feo. This quest story for self-respect, forgiveness, and acceptance is a wild and beautiful ride. It is also intimate and familiar--even for those of us who have never considered a 5,000-mile ocean voyage.”

-- D’arcy Fallon

“It has been years since I've read a book I could not put down and I thank Eric for taking me, and all hands willing, aboard on his solo journey of adventure, romance, redemption, and self-discovery. I am a sailor at heart although one need not be to appreciate every aspect of this book which moves to the rhythms of tide and torrent, counterbalanced with a single heartbeat of hope. Eric writes with a paintbrush, touching and retouching sights, sounds, and smells within in a blue collage that at times makes us shake and shudder. If Melville and Hemingway ever bore a child together, he/she might write like Eric Best.”

-- John Byrne

“A thoroughly fascinating voyage for sailors and non-sailors alike, a Captain Ahab chasing the great white whale of id, thrown against an ordinary man doing the best he can, this novel screams “read me” from page one.”

-- Ava Rogers, Review Broads

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