My interest in the Age of Sail started by sheer accident when I found a copy of Oliver Warner’s Great Sea Battles (MacMillan Company, NY. 1968) on the restocking trolley at the Chinook Public Library in Calgary, circa 1978. Not long after, I bought Avalon Hill’s venerable Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Unfortunately, this was about the same time my gaming buddies Discovered Girls, so my copy went mostly un-played and un-punched, save for a few solo games. Undaunted, I continued to buy other age of sail games, including Beat to Quarters by Command Perspectives.