Before the Wind by Jim Lynch

Author:Jim Lynch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

DEMOLITION DAY

Boats are sold, traded or auctioned. They’re stolen, given away or inherited, sunken, crushed or seized by Nazis.

Einstein’s friends knew what object he desired above all others. So for his fiftieth birthday they conspired to buy him a twenty-three-foot wooden sailboat that was built just for him. Hearing of his disdain for engines, the designer raised the cockpit enough to hide a two-cylinder inboard. He kept the mast short so the sails would be small enough for the genius to handle by himself on a lake very near to his summer home outside Berlin. Stoutly built, the boat had a plumb bow, shallow draft and nearly eight feet of beam. Its maple-and-mahogany cabin came outfitted with dishes and silverware, ready to entertain guests. Dazzled by her mammalian curves, Einstein named her Tümmler (porpoise). He was in love.

His wife, Elsa, wrote to his little sister that

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