Author: Rosie Swale
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Bernard Moitessier
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574091540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.

Author: Charles H. Lagerbom
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439673209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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Cape Horn conjures up images of wind-whipped waters and desperate mariners in frozen rigging. Long recognized as a maritime touchstone for sailors, it marks the spot where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet in one writhing mass. "Doubling" Cape Horn became the ultimate test, earning a prominent place in Maine maritime history. At the end of South America, it shares longitude 67° west exactly with Cutler, Maine, a direct north-south line of seven thousand miles. Maine Cape Horners were recognized by a golden earring. If they did not survive this most difficult journey in the world, the earring covered the costs of their funeral, should the body ever be found. Maritime historian Charles H. Lagerbom traveled to the end of the world to help research this exciting story of bold Mainers and their exhilarating and oftentimes deadly dance with danger.

Author: Hal Roth
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN: 9780540071449
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A tale of high adventure at sea in one of the least known parts of the world.

Author: Frank Guernsey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892216205
Category : Horn, Cape (Chile)
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Frank Guernsey lived through this tale of his record- setting 128-day nonstop journey, sailing single-handed from Southern California around Cape Horn to Uruguay in an engineless sailboat, only 24 feet long. Cy Zoerner put this harrowing adventure into words as no other author could. As Frank revealed the story, Cy began to wonder, as would we all, what could drive a man to commit to an outrageously dangerous undertaking in such a small craft. After endless hours discussing life and love with Frank, Cy understood and a story, like no other, poured forth.This will be the best sailing adventure you will ever read and quite possibly the best book you will read for years to come. The greatest fiction can not match the adventures and life of Frank Guernsey".Humans!" The handle of my precious watermaker stopped in my hands. My eyes strained at the black speck on the gray, watery horizon. The misery from the open saltwater sores I sat on, winked out. As I switched on my video recorder, my only companion since I set sail, I repeated, "Humans? After all these months alone..". I glanced at my watch. It was January 2, 10 a.m.

Author: John Kretschmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580801621
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Legendary account of the author's voyage around Cape Horn in a 32-foot sailboat, sailing east-to-west (thus the Horn is to starboard, or on the right). This is a notoriously difficult and dangerous passage, especially in a boat this size.

Author: David Hays
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060976969
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A father and son sail 17,000 miles in a 25 foot boat they built together.

Author: R J Rubadeau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981731308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Cape Horn is the ultimate cruising destination. Join a crew of skilled and veteran sailors as they step outside their responsible shore side lives and take up the gauntlet of a 16,000 mile passage to the ends of the earth. Their blueprint for expedition style cruising and the development of the survivalist mindset necessary to safely cruise Patagonia and visit Cape Horn is described in detail. R. J. Rubadeau is an award winning writer and lifelong adventurer with a passion for ocean voyaging and writing entertaining narratives of his journeys. Important lessons of the cruising life and shipboard laughs are spliced into a richly-seasoned chowder of experiences at the edge of the world. Come aboard.R. J. Rubadeau is one helluva good writer. Give him a canvas on which to paint something deep and broad--something like a long sea voyage from Maine to Cape Horn and something irresistible emerges. This narrative describes a special journey, and is a remarkable book: by turns funny, profound, instructional, conversational, insightful. It's terrific. Do yourself a favor. Pick it up.Herb McCormick, Executive Editor CRUISING WORLD

Author: Dallas Murphy
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0786738731
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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For as far back as he can remember, Dallas Murphy has been sea-struck. Since he began to read, "besotted by salt-water dreams and nautical language," he studied the lore surrounding a place of mythic proportions: the ever-alluring Cape Horn. And after years of dreaming -- and sailing -- he finally made his voyage there. In this lively, thrilling blend of history, geography, and modern-day adventure, Murphy shows how the myth crossed wakes with his reality. Cape Horn is a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America -- 55 degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West. It's a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty, one that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to Joseph Conrad. For centuries, the small stretch of water between Cape Horn and the Antarctic peninsula was the only gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and it's a place where the storms are bigger, the winds stronger, the seas rougher than anywhere else on earth. Rounding the Horn is the ultimate maritime rite of passage, and in Murphy's hands, it becomes a thrilling, exuberant tour. Weaving together stories of his own nautical adventures with long-lost tales of those who braved the Cape before him -- from Spanish missionaries to Captain Cook -- and interspersed with breathtaking descriptions of the surrounding wilderness, the result is a beautifully crafted, immensely enjoyable read.

Author: Jerome Rand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Large Print Edition of the true account of the 2017-2018 solo non-stop circumnavigation by Jerome Rand aboard the Westsail 32 "Mighty Sparrow". A testament to endurance and adventure, this memoir recounts what life is like aboard a small sailboat during a 271 day voyage around the globe, alone and without stopping. One of the greatest challenges of both body and mind, the author will take you onboard during the good times and the bad. As one of only a handful of people to have ever succeed in such a small boat, this story is truly the adventure of a lifetime.