Cruising: 5

"Good Lord!" scribbled Alan Eddy in his diary. "Why the heck did I do this?" At the time, Eddy, a systems analyst from Scarsdale, N.Y., was alone in mid-Pacific aboard his 30-ft. ketch Apogee, heaving through heavy seas on a 39,000-mile voyage around the world.

Eddy returned home recently and he still has no ready answer to the question. Seven years ago, the young bachelor, then 31, spent $18,000 for a new fiber glass Seawind sailboat that is advertised by the Allied Boat Co. of Catskill, N.Y., as capable of "crossing an ocean...

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