Erskine Childers may be best known to sailors as the author of the classic Riddle of the Sands. But as SAIL Cruising Editor Charles Doane recounts, he was also a gun runner for Irish independence on his 44-foot, Colin Archer-designed ketch and a cruising sailor with an intense sense of purpose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Erskine Childers may be best known to sailors as the author of the classic Riddle of the Sands. But as SAIL Cruising Editor Charles Doane recounts, he was also a gun runner for Irish independence on his 44-foot, Colin Archer-designed ketch and a cruising sailor with an intense sense of purpose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erskine Childers may be best known to sailors as the author of the classic Riddle of the Sands. But as SAIL Cruising Editor Charles Doane recounts, he was also a gun runner for Irish independence on his 44-foot, Colin Archer-designed ketch and a cruising sailor with an intense sense of purpose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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