Cape Horn

by Moitessier, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9781574091540
• ISBN10: 1574091549
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Sheridan House Inc

Summary

This is the story of Bernard and Francoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn, the "logical route," because it was the fastest. Setting out from Tahiti, they make their way through the Roaring Forties, iceberg territory, and the relentless gale-force winds of the higher latitudes. They owe their survival to careful preparation, superior seamanship, and their sense of harmony with Joshua and the sea. Cape Horn is also the tale of how Joshua, Moitessier's dream boat, became a reality, and how he recovered from the disaster of losing his previous boat -- which he himself had built -- to pursue his great love: sailing the world's oceans. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Bernard Moitessier was one of the world's great small-boat sailors. He wrote four other books, all classics of nautical literature. Sailing to the Reefs was Moitessier's first book. The Long Way covered the famous Golden Globe race that he abandoned to "save [his] soul." A Sea Vagabond's World is a practical book, and Tamata and the Alliance, finished shortly before his death in 1994, is the magnificent autobiography of this uncommon man

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Birds of Passage
My Paper Boat	p. 15
Like a Well-trained Monkey	p. 23
Like a Lost Dog	p. 30
The Wheel Turns	p. 34
Afloat at Last	p. 43
Towards the Tropics	p. 48
In the Open Sea	p. 54
The Fickle Trades	p. 59
Meeting Place of Ocean Birds	p. 68
Atlantic	p. 74
The Great Turning Point	p. 83
Panama-Galapagos	p. 90
A World which Fear has Spared	p. 103
At the Gates to Polynesia	p. 123
A Dream at a Price	p. 141
The Logical Route
Preparations	p. 153
A Start ... Like any Other	p. 156
A Whole Gale	p. 161
In the Heavy Seas of the High Latitudes or the Game of the Little Squares	p. 178
Cape Horn to Port	p. 184
On the Look-out for Icebergs	p. 195
The Horse Latitudes	p. 212
Trade Winds ... from the West!	p. 221
Appendices
Designer's Notes	p. 231
Author's Notes	p. 239
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