He's very much still with us, and has had a new book in
progress for
the past couple of years. He's pretty spry for a guy in his
80s--at
last report was about to sail a new sailboat from Norway to
his home in
Connecticut. His first six or eight books are undoubtedly his
best, but
there are gems in the later work, too.
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