Back in 1968, Kathy Robbins and her husband embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime, never-been-done adventure: piloting an open-hulled Glasstron boat from Juneau, Alaska clear across the continental United States.
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Chris Dixon is the author of Ghost Wave and The Ocean, The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge. His writing has appeared in The New York Times bestseller The Southerner’s Handbook. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Outside, Popular Mechanics and Garden & Gun. He grew up boating, fishing and surfing along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, once spent a year working and traveling with Jimmy Buffett and today lives in Charleston with his wife, son and daughter.
As told by the Connecticut River
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