SCYA’s GENERAL MEETING MAY 13TH, 2023

Advance Praise for
ALL HANDS ON DECK

“Will Sofrin’s thrilling account of the eventful, sometimes terrifying delivery of the tall ship that starred in Peter Weir’s adaptation of Patrick O’Brian’s The Far Side of the World is a must-read. Even if you haven’t seen the movie or read O’Brian’s novels, this is an adventure story of the highest order.”

—NATHANIEL PHILBRICK, author of the National Book Award–winning In the Heart of the Sea and Travels with George

​Author/Adventurer Will Sofrin will be our guest speaker. Leave your dry shoes at home so you can feel his adventure as he shares his experience aboard the ship. (VC Kathy.. I have seen Will’s presentation, I might come in full foulies!)

FROM WILL SOFRIN’S WEBSITE https://www.willsofrin.com/

A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an eighteenth-century warship six thousand miles to Hollywood

In the late 1990s, Patrick O’Brian’s beloved, massively bestselling historical novel series was destined for film, with Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World. With director Peter Weir and stars Russel Crowe and Paul Bettany signed on, there was only one problem: The Rose, the replica eighteenth-century warship that filmmakers bought for the production, was in Newport, Rhode Island, two oceans and thousands of miles away from Hollywood.

Enter a ragtag crew of thirty oddballs and tall-ship fanatics, including author Will Sofrin, at the time a twenty-one-year-old wooden-boat builder and yacht racer looking for some direction in his life. Together, the crew embarked on an epic adventure, racing a ticking clock and fighting against Mother Nature, and occasionally each other, to deliver the Rose, hopefully in one piece.