Seven Seas on a Shoestring, Sailing All Seas in the 'Idle Hour'
Year: 1939 Language: English Author: Long D. Genre: History Publisher: Harper & Brothers Format: PDF/EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 389 Description: Probably one of the great 'unknown' small boat adventures that you've never heard of, Dwight Long and his ship, the Idle Hour. It's a little known but true tale of note.Straight out of college with the 1930s Great Depression in full swing, Long decides to embark on a boyhood dream before he enters the world of work. He will buy a tiny 32' Alaskan fishing ketch and sail it around the world.It's a great scheme, except that Long has virtually no blue water sailing experience, no navigational training, and except for Joshua Sloan and a minuscule cadre of sailing daredevils, few have ever taken such a small vessel successfully around the world. Also, Long has no financing and is short of enough money to pay for such a journey.At a glance, Long can't possibly bring such an audacious plan to reality. But, apparently, Long is such an intrepid individual with such a flare of friendly optimism that he actually pulls his plan together and sets off into the Pacific. Eventually he manages to end up with a Bora Boran companion, Timi, and a ship dog, Hugo.All the classic sailing adventure themes are here.......storms at sea, near wrecks, debilitating sickness and injury, exotic and beautiful locales, catastrophic boat damage, , contact with Stone Age peoples, pirates, forgotten Polynesian islands, corrupt officials, endless sunsets, strange and friendly people.But Long's experience is unique. He has come as few have come before. No huge yacht or giant merchant ship with their huge cargoes and dozens of men brought Long. His experience was a a lone Westerner with his Tahitian sidekick and Hugo the dog in tow. A manner if ever seen by any of these people. Thus, rare doors of opportunity were opened to him like few before and few after. It is a true blue water Route 66 tale that went on for more than 3 years.Long lived to tell the tale and several photographs that he took of his time are included in this version.
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Seven Seas on a Shoestring, Sailing All Seas in the 'Idle Hour'
Language: English
Author: Long D.
Genre: History
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Format: PDF/EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 389
Description: Probably one of the great 'unknown' small boat adventures that you've never heard of, Dwight Long and his ship, the Idle Hour. It's a little known but true tale of note.Straight out of college with the 1930s Great Depression in full swing, Long decides to embark on a boyhood dream before he enters the world of work. He will buy a tiny 32' Alaskan fishing ketch and sail it around the world.It's a great scheme, except that Long has virtually no blue water sailing experience, no navigational training, and except for Joshua Sloan and a minuscule cadre of sailing daredevils, few have ever taken such a small vessel successfully around the world. Also, Long has no financing and is short of enough money to pay for such a journey.At a glance, Long can't possibly bring such an audacious plan to reality. But, apparently, Long is such an intrepid individual with such a flare of friendly optimism that he actually pulls his plan together and sets off into the Pacific. Eventually he manages to end up with a Bora Boran companion, Timi, and a ship dog, Hugo.All the classic sailing adventure themes are here.......storms at sea, near wrecks, debilitating sickness and injury, exotic and beautiful locales, catastrophic boat damage, , contact with Stone Age peoples, pirates, forgotten Polynesian islands, corrupt officials, endless sunsets, strange and friendly people.But Long's experience is unique. He has come as few have come before. No huge yacht or giant merchant ship with their huge cargoes and dozens of men brought Long. His experience was a a lone Westerner with his Tahitian sidekick and Hugo the dog in tow. A manner if ever seen by any of these people. Thus, rare doors of opportunity were opened to him like few before and few after. It is a true blue water Route 66 tale that went on for more than 3 years.Long lived to tell the tale and several photographs that he took of his time are included in this version.
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