by M. Blanchet
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appears in Sailing, Action & Adventure, and Hobbies.
This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted singlehandedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with ti...
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