Albatross by Deborah Scaling Kelty with Meg Noonan

Subtitle: The true story of a woman's survival at sea -- This was probably not a book I should have been reading as we were expecting very high winds in a very bumpy anchorage without much protection.  With that said, it was a very good book and we did fine during our windy conditions for two days.  She had been away from the water for a bit and was ready to crew for someone and head south.  She found a boat that fit that for her, but through a series of very, very unfortunate events things went terribly wrong.  The captain was questionable and some of the crew he took on even more so.  If she had gone with her gut feeling she probably would have gotten off the boat.  The terrible tragedy was that the boat sunk in a terrible storm and only two of the five crew survived.  She did a beautiful job retelling the story and I cannot even imagine what it was like and applaud her in her ability to tell the story and go sailing again.