Our Hull #07 Seventh Heaven's sister ship Hull # 140 "Last Resort" meets us in Auke Bay near Juneau, Alaska. We had been communicating with Dick and Sharon on the "C-470 website" for quite awhile and found out that they would be joining us in Alaska in 2008.
Here are Dick and Sharon at our home in Friday Harbor, WA signing and mailing copies of his recent book "Manning Up in Alaska".
Dick’s fast-paced Manning Up In Alaska is a riveting, good read and an entertaining adventure book. At times we laugh; at other times we hold our breath. Regardless of whether we’re sailors or landlubbers, he holds our wide-eyed attention with this action-packed tale as we sail with him and his wife up the coast from Mexico to Alaska aboard his 47-foot sailboat, Last Resort. The amazing truth is that lifelong sailor and hard-driving entrepreneur Dick Drechsler didn’t expect to live, much less cruise 2600 miles of ocean. After neck and throat cancer treatment confined him to taking nourishment from a feeding tube, he lost his energy, humor and will to survive. He was forced to retire; he was unable to travel. Worst of all, he was no longer able to enjoy his passion for sailing. This book is about how, despite these very long odds, he refused to give up. His story of regaining partial use of his throat; pursuing a lifelong dream to cruise in a sailboat and discovering a new, exciting avocation is a page-turner in every regard. And, in the end, Dick came to dedicate his life and this book to helping other cancer survivors enjoy life and even thrive.
http://voyagesoflastresort.com/
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