| ▲ | smithclay 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
If you're interested in learning more about solo sailing voyages, the new non-fiction book "Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea" by Richard King is fascinating. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ckmate-king-2 a day ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Two other single-handed round-the-world accounts I enjoyed are Robin Lee Graham's _Dove_ (the name of his boat), and Chay Blyth's _The Impossible Voyage_. Graham's voyage was noteworthy because of how young he was -- 16. He might have been, as I recall, the youngest ever to make such a voyage at that time. His book was later made into a film starring Joseph Bottoms and Deborah Raffin. Blyth's was noteworthy because he was the first to sail singlehanded "the wrong way round," westwards, nonstop. Incredibly arduous. Wikipedia says The Times called this "The most outstanding passage ever made by one man alone." His vessel was a 59 footer called "British Steel." | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | itbeho 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Also, John Guzzwell circumnavigated his self built 20 footer named Trekka from 1955 to 1959 and wrote a great book about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Guzzwell https://goodreads.com/book/show/1037445.Trekka_Round_the_Wor... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | euroderf 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Another recommendation: Racundra's First Cruise by Arthur Ransome. | |||||||||||||||||
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