Year: 1926 Language: English Author: Gerbault A. Genre: History Publisher: D. APPLETON AND CO Format: PDF/EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 94 Description: "The name of Alain Gerbault has become a legend with small-boat sailors... Gerbault was one of the first men to achieve the crossing of the Atlantic single-handed from east to west ; his voyage inspired others to follow in his wake ; the experience he gained in deep sea navigation, and in the arrangement of his sails best suited to the Trade Winds, was written down in The Flight of theFirecrest, information which was (and still is) indispensable reading for those who came after him. The Firecrest was an English cutter 39 ft. overall, built in 1892. The author purchased her in 1921, sailed her to Cannes, and set out for Gibralter and the Atlantic in April 1923. He arrived in New York 101 days later, after a voyage of great endurance. His sails were tornto ribbons, the main supply of his drinking water spoiled, and he lay beca lmed in tropical heat with only a cup of fresh water a day. The rains came just in time to save him from death by thirst. Alain Gerbault's grave in Bora-Bora, one of the Oceanic Leeward Isles group, is a sober monument, embellished with a medallion of the navigator. His defence of the native cause in the South Seas islands has ensured the permanence of his name in the annals of sociology. This book perpetuates his renown as an ocean-going yachtsman." -- from book jacket.
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The Fight of the Firecrest
Language: English
Author: Gerbault A.
Genre: History
Publisher: D. APPLETON AND CO
Format: PDF/EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 94
Description: "The name of Alain Gerbault has become a legend with small-boat sailors... Gerbault was one of the first men to achieve the crossing of the Atlantic single-handed from east to west ; his voyage inspired others to follow in his wake ; the experience he gained in deep sea navigation, and in the arrangement of his sails best suited to the Trade Winds, was written down in The Flight of theFirecrest, information which was (and still is) indispensable reading for those who came after him. The Firecrest was an English cutter 39 ft. overall, built in 1892. The author purchased her in 1921, sailed her to Cannes, and set out for Gibralter and the Atlantic in April 1923. He arrived in New York 101 days later, after a voyage of great endurance. His sails were tornto ribbons, the main supply of his drinking water spoiled, and he lay beca lmed in tropical heat with only a cup of fresh water a day. The rains came just in time to save him from death by thirst. Alain Gerbault's grave in Bora-Bora, one of the Oceanic Leeward Isles group, is a sober monument, embellished with a medallion of the navigator. His defence of the native cause in the South Seas islands has ensured the permanence of his name in the annals of sociology. This book perpetuates his renown as an ocean-going yachtsman." -- from book jacket.
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