A Single Wave Stories of Storms and Survival

by Chiles, Webb

• ISBN13: 9781574090727
• ISBN10: 1574090720
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-25
• Publisher: Sheridan House

Summary

Webb Chiles set several records while bailing his way through cyclones, capsizes, cold and wet terror. Whether rounding Cape Horn or circumnavigating in an 18-foot yawl, he frequently sailed at the edge of death--but lived to write about it in this unique book.

Author Biography

Webb Chiles is one of only a handful of world class sailors, as well as an experienced writer. He is the author of four books and more than one hundred magazine and newspaper articles. He now lives in Boston on his boat Hawke of Tuonela and plans to resume his fourth circumnavigation in the near future.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi	(4)
Introduction	xv
PART I: EGREGIOUS 1974-1976	5	(44)
CHAPTER 1 -- Turning Away	5	(8)
CHAPTER 2 -- Eden	13	(4)
CHAPTER 3 -- Cape Horn	17	(6)
CHAPTER 4 -- Capsize	23	(10)
CHAPTER 5 -- The Incomparable Wind	33	(4)
CHAPTER 6 -- Cyclone in the Tasman	37	(12)
PART II: CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE 1978-1983	49	(70)
CHAPTER 7 -- The Last Six Miles	49	(10)
CHAPTER 8 -- Adrift	59	(30)
CHAPTER 9 -- The Proper Storm	89	(8)
CHAPTER 10 -- The Red Sea Backwards	97	(6)
CHAPTER 11 -- The Island That Would Not Be Passed	103	(16)
PART III: RESURGAM 1983-1992	119
CHAPTER 12 -- Nautical Roulette	119	(8)
CHAPTER 13 -- Thin Water	127	(6)
CHAPTER 14 -- Perfection	133	(8)
CHAPTER 15 -- Cape Horn Is Just Another Place	141	(8)
CHAPTER 16 -- Almost	149	(8)
CHAPTER 17 -- Swimming	157
EPILOGUE: THE HAWKE OF TUONELA 1993-