Year: 1936 Language: English Author: Robinson W.A. Genre: History Publisher: Jonathan Cape, LTD Format: PDF/EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 188 Description: The 10,000 Leagues Over the Sea voyage was a year and a half in the past and William Robinson was anxious to take Svaap back out on another blue water adventure. A shorter trip would be in order. One down the East Coast, through the Panama Canal, and follow the Humboldt Current to the mysterious Galapagos Islands. His wife, Florence, and his young cousin And artist, Dan West, would be great sailing companions. And even though neither of them had any blue water sailing experience to speak of, they were going to be with William Albert Robinson, world famous circumnavigator. He was going to show them how much fun sailing could be. The Svaap was only a 32' ketch, and for some crews it would have been too cramped, but in this case, they were all family and would get along splendidly. So in fall of 1933, Svaap and it's crew of three left Port Washington, Mass. and headed south into the Atlantic. Quickly the voyage transformed to more interesting than fun, as the ketch was immediately raked with squalls and storms up and down the East Coast. In the Caribbean, they played along the fringes of a hurricane, barely escaping it's wrath by docking at Cuba, inadvertently while the Cubans were in the middle of a revolution. The start of the voyage was without doubt interesting. But this was only a precursor to their story......with even crazier unforseeable trials and challenges yet to come.
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Voyage to Galapagos
Language: English
Author: Robinson W.A.
Genre: History
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, LTD
Format: PDF/EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 188
Description: The 10,000 Leagues Over the Sea voyage was a year and a half in the past and William Robinson was anxious to take Svaap back out on another blue water adventure. A shorter trip would be in order. One down the East Coast, through the Panama Canal, and follow the Humboldt Current to the mysterious Galapagos Islands.
His wife, Florence, and his young cousin And artist, Dan West, would be great sailing companions. And even though neither of them had any blue water sailing experience to speak of, they were going to be with William Albert Robinson, world famous circumnavigator. He was going to show them how much fun sailing could be. The Svaap was only a 32' ketch, and for some crews it would have been too cramped, but in this case, they were all family and would get along splendidly.
So in fall of 1933, Svaap and it's crew of three left Port Washington, Mass. and headed south into the Atlantic.
Quickly the voyage transformed to more interesting than fun, as the ketch was immediately raked with squalls and storms up and down the East Coast. In the Caribbean, they played along the fringes of a hurricane, barely escaping it's wrath by docking at Cuba, inadvertently while the Cubans were in the middle of a revolution.
The start of the voyage was without doubt interesting. But this was only a precursor to their story......with even crazier unforseeable trials and challenges yet to come.
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