Year: 2005 Language: english Author: Maud Fontenoy Genre: History Publisher: Arcade Publishing Edition: First American Edition ISBN: 1-55970-762-3 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 168 Description: Over a thousand men have climbed Mount Everest. Twelve have walked on the moon, and only six have rowed across the Atlantic from west to east. No woman had yet accomplished this feat—until now. When twenty-five-year-old Maud Fontenoy began planning her journey across the North Atlantic in her twenty-four-foot boat, Pilot—defying all odds—she had little idea what was in store for her. From the moment of her departure, back-to-back storms, with up to thirty-foot waves, tossed Maud and Pilot up and down relentlessly as if they were Nature's playthings, leaving mariner and boat battered and bruised. And this was just the beginning. In the cold and fog, huge container ships appeared out of nowhere and almost crushed her tiny craft. Later, in the middle of the ocean, she found herself without drinking water and discovered her two desalinators had stopped working. Close to panic, she transformed herself into a makeshift engineer and after hours of struggle managed to get one machine working. She thought she had seen it all when enormous whales emerged, rocking her boat playfully but menacingly as they dived under and around Pilot, something she might have found entertaining had it not been for the mortal danger their maritime hijinks presented. Still more dangerous were the circling sharks that sniffed with ominous curiosity at this strange creature. But poetic and beautiful moments also graced her journey: viewing unbelievably starry skies as she rode on still waters at night; playing and chatting with flying dolphins; and waking one morning to suddenly warm water, the blessed Gulf Stream. Despite all her battles with the elements and the sea, Maud Fontenoy landed, after four long months, victoriously in La Coruna, Spain—the first woman to row across the North Atlantic.
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Across the Savage Sea
Year: 2005
Language: english
Author: Maud Fontenoy
Genre: History
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Edition: First American Edition
ISBN: 1-55970-762-3
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 168
Description: Over a thousand men have climbed Mount Everest. Twelve have walked on the moon,
and only six have rowed across the Atlantic from west to east. No woman had
yet accomplished this feat—until now.
When twenty-five-year-old Maud Fontenoy
began planning her journey across the North Atlantic in her twenty-four-foot boat,
Pilot—defying all odds—she had little idea what was in store for her. From the moment of her
departure, back-to-back storms, with up to thirty-foot waves, tossed Maud and Pilot up and
down relentlessly as if they were Nature's playthings, leaving mariner and boat battered
and bruised. And this was just the beginning. In the cold and fog, huge container ships appeared
out of nowhere and almost crushed her tiny craft. Later, in the middle of the ocean, she
found herself without drinking water and discovered her two desalinators had stopped
working. Close to panic, she transformed herself into a makeshift engineer and after hours of
struggle managed to get one machine working. She thought she had seen it all when enormous
whales emerged, rocking her boat playfully but menacingly as they dived under and around
Pilot, something she might have found entertaining had it not been for the mortal
danger their maritime hijinks presented. Still more dangerous were the circling sharks that
sniffed with ominous curiosity at this strange creature. But poetic and beautiful moments also
graced her journey: viewing unbelievably starry skies as she rode on still waters at night; playing
and chatting with flying dolphins; and waking one morning to suddenly warm water, the
blessed Gulf Stream. Despite all her battles with the elements and
the sea, Maud Fontenoy landed, after four long months, victoriously in La Coruna, Spain—the
first woman to row across the North Atlantic.
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