
"Sloop: Restoring My Family's Wooden Sailboat _ An Adventure in Old-Fashioned Values," by Daniel Robb. Author of "Crossing the Water," about the Penikese Island School for troubled boys in Buzzards Bay, Robb writes of his painstaking restoration of a rotted 12 1/2-foot Herreshoff that had floated on memory and emotion, and finally again on water.

