Cape horn : the logical route : 14,216 miles without port of call / Bernard Moitessier ; translated by Inge Moore
- Bib ID:
- 8169875
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Moitessier, Bernard, author
- Uniform Title:
- Cap Horn à la voile. English
- Description:
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- Dobbs Ferry, NY : Sheridan House, 2003
- 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBN:
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- 1574091549 (alkaline paper)
- 9781574091540
- Summary:
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This is more than the narrative of a voyage. It tells of the Moitessiers' honeymoon trip from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back along the "logical route" via Cape Horn, a path chosen for its speed. Their path took them through the Roaring Forties, iceberg territory, and the relentless gale-force winds of the higher latitudes. Moitessier tells the story of JOSHUA, the long dreamt-of boat that became a reality, and how he recovered from the loss of his previous boat, which he'd built himself, and returned to his great love: sailing the world's oceans. This book is also a mariner's guide to the pleasures and perils of sailing the Trade Winds, the archipelagos of the Pacific, and the Cape Horn route, including preparation suggestions and a wealth of the sailing survival knowledge that made the Moitessiers' voyage so successful and joyous.
- Full contents:
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- Birds of Passage
- My Paper Boat
- Like a Well-trained Monkey
- Like a Lost Dog
- The Wheel Turns
- Afloat at Last
- Towards the Tropics
- In the Open Sea
- The Fickle Trades
- Meeting Place of Ocean Birds
- Atlantic
- The Great Turning Point
- Panama-Galapagos
- A World which Fear has Spared
- At the Gates to Polynesia
- A Dream at a Price
- The Logical Route
- Preparations
- A Start ... Like any Other
- A Whole Gale.
- In the Heavy Seas of the High Latitudes or the Game of the Little Squares
- Cape Horn to Port
- On the Look-out for Icebergs
- The Horse Latitudes
- Trade Winds ... from the West!
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Moore, Inge, translator
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2003
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