Year: 1932 Language: English Author: Robinson W.A. Genre: History Format: PDF/epub Quality: eBook Pages count: 322 Description: Along with Joshua Slocum, William Robinson's world circumnavigation and subsequent book - 10,000 Leagues Over The Sea - has inspired generations of wayfarers, particularily small boat sailors. Robinson's achievement is mentioned ad infinitum as the source of inspiration in dozens of subsequent sailing memiors for the next several decades. To this day, there is still the occaisional hat tip to Robinson's feat. And why not? As of 1932, Robinson's boat, the 32' Svaap, was the smallest vessel to have ever completed the world circumnavigation - 3 1/2 years, 32,000 miles, 435 ports-of-call. He had no radio or other electronic equipment, only the the barest of navigational tools, of which, he taught himself or learned on the way. He did not use self-sailing aids, perferring to manually guide the Svaap for most of the trip. He had no support or funding, relying mostly on the proceeds from magazine articles and newspaper stories he wrote as he sailed. Despite Robinson's 'modest' arrangements, he went to corners of the Earth that others barely dreamed of. With his Tahitian crewman - Etera - he sailed beneath smoking volcanoes, ate with headhunter/cannibals, docked at exotic ports-o-call, evaded pirates, battled hurricanes and deadly water spouts, touched islands rising from diaphanous waters, experienced mysterious cultures, and met a myriad of alluring characters and personalities across the seven seas. Robinson demonstrated then, as he still does today, that a life of adventure is not limited to the lucky few. That anyone with the drive, the vision, and a modest purse can, in fact, experience that same life. Here is the blueprint. It only takes the idea and the will.
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10,000 Leagues Over The Sea
Language: English
Author: Robinson W.A.
Genre: History
Format: PDF/epub
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 322
Description: Along with Joshua Slocum, William Robinson's world circumnavigation and subsequent book - 10,000 Leagues Over The Sea - has inspired generations of wayfarers, particularily small boat sailors. Robinson's achievement is mentioned ad infinitum as the source of inspiration in dozens of subsequent sailing memiors for the next several decades. To this day, there is still the occaisional hat tip to Robinson's feat. And why not? As of 1932, Robinson's boat, the 32' Svaap, was the smallest vessel to have ever completed the world circumnavigation - 3 1/2 years, 32,000 miles, 435 ports-of-call. He had no radio or other electronic equipment, only the the barest of navigational tools, of which, he taught himself or learned on the way. He did not use self-sailing aids, perferring to manually guide the Svaap for most of the trip. He had no support or funding, relying mostly on the proceeds from magazine articles and newspaper stories he wrote as he sailed. Despite Robinson's 'modest' arrangements, he went to corners of the Earth that others barely dreamed of. With his Tahitian crewman - Etera - he sailed beneath smoking volcanoes, ate with headhunter/cannibals, docked at exotic ports-o-call, evaded pirates, battled hurricanes and deadly water spouts, touched islands rising from diaphanous waters, experienced mysterious cultures, and met a myriad of alluring characters and personalities across the seven seas. Robinson demonstrated then, as he still does today, that a life of adventure is not limited to the lucky few. That anyone with the drive, the vision, and a modest purse can, in fact, experience that same life. Here is the blueprint. It only takes the idea and the will.
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