Charles Gerard Davis was one of the world's leading maritime model builders. He was acclaimed as an artist, historian, and author. This is his recollection of one of his first adventures at sea: sailing out of New York in 1892 on a voyage around Cape Horn, aboard the bark James A. Wright. A well-told tale of the fulfillment of a young man's yearning to go to sea. His writing exposes his boyish wonder as well as the harsh reality of life at sea during the last years of sail.
