Among the Multihulls, Chapters Eight & Nine, Video illustrations with Commentary.

Chapter 8 – Double Bind

Living with Family in Highland Guatemala. Stories of the ancient Maya, their villages today, learning Spanish, and slowly acquiring the treasured feeling of belonging in the world. Textile quest, markets and festivals, a coffee craze. Coming to grips with the Third World double bind of poverty and population. Multihull events of the early 70’s. Returning to boat, getting out over Likin Bar, at sea again.

Chapter 9 – Hey Dad, Can I Steer?

SCRIMSHAW’s Voyage from Guatemala to Panama. Fonseca Gulf, Costa Rica with other cruising boats, school on board, difficulties of raising two teenage boys on a small boat, Lobster overdose, shrimp overdose. Issues of getting drinking water and disposing of boat trash. Offering a leg up to a local. Bashing to windward in the Gulf of Panama. The captain as failed parent; father-son reconciliation.