South Atlantic Capsize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South Atlantic Capsize write by Dudley Dix. This book was released on 2015-04-17. South Atlantic Capsize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In January 2014 the 38ft sailboat "Black Cat" set out to race across the South Atlantic Ocean in the Cape to Rio Race. On the second day of the race they broke their rudder while surfing at 22 knots and were subsequently capsized by a massive wave in a big storm. This book tells the story of the race, the boat, the crew and what happened on that day, how crew, food and equipment were thrown around the interior, what happened to the crewman who was in the cockpit at the time, what damage was done to the boat and what the crew did to cope with and recover from the situation in which they found themselves.
Adrift
Adrift - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adrift write by J. H. Hunter. This book was released on 2008-06-01. Adrift available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Shaped by Wind & Wave
Shaped by Wind & Wave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shaped by Wind & Wave write by Dudley Dix. This book was released on 2012-02-23. Shaped by Wind & Wave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of random writings by a boat designer explaining boat design in layman's terms, explanations of various boatbuilding methods, how to loft the lines of a boat, how to turn the hull over and various other boating subjects that you will not find in other books about boat design. It includes a chapter on recommendations for sailing around the Cape of Good Hope and also one about the only circumnavigation ever in an open boat.
Capsize
Capsize - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capsize write by Nicolas Angel. This book was released on 1981-01-06. Capsize available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the crew's attempts to survive high seas, gale-force winds, and cold and tells of the inventiveness, friendship, and hope which sustained them.
A Family Outing in the Atlantic
A Family Outing in the Atlantic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Family Outing in the Atlantic write by Jill Schinas. This book was released on 2008-11. A Family Outing in the Atlantic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When she set off to cross the Atlantic as part of a delivery crew, Jill Dickin Schinas had no idea that she was embarking on a whole new life, but within a week of setting out she and the skipper were making plans for a journey to Cape Horn. One year later the couple were on their way but had detoured up the Amazon to get married. Two years after that they were crossing the Atlantic again, this time from the Caribbean and this time with the ship's company enlarged by the addition of a two year old son and a babe in arms. Together the little family then headed directly for the Falkland Islands and the southern tip of South America - travelling via the Bahamas, the Azores, Portugal, the Canaries, Cape Verde, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Sao Tome and Principe, Uruguay, Argentina, and various tenanted and untenanted islets and lumps of rock cast adrift in the Atlantic Ocean. Seven years after setting out, they almost reached their destination... On the face of it, this book is a travelogue, but it is also a portrait of the cruising lifestyle- the hand-to-mouth, alternative lifestyle, not the early-retirement luxury cruise. Yes, we were bound for Cape Horn... in as much as we had a destination, this indeed was it. But we were in no great hurry, and even this goal was viewed as little more than a staging post on our journey, for we meant to journey indefinitely. Truly, it was not a place but a lifestyle which we were setting forth to find. The family's adventures range from fighting gales and battling with immigration officials, to exploring uncharted African waters and abandoning ship to board a chopper via the winch cable. There is much in here that will beof value to other yachtsmen and other travellers, and heaps which will appeal to armchair voyagers and to families seeking to turn away from the nine-to-five motorway and tread a road of their own. Contains 31 pen-and-ink drawings and cartoons. Includes a brief glossary for people not conversant with sailing terminology. By the author of Kids in the Cockpit (a guide to sailing and cruising with children). The Schinas family are talented people. Theres nothing on the planet that Nick cant fix, while Jill is an artist of character. The children are developing in the same mould, but the overriding feature of all their lives and the guiding spirit of this book, is their self-sufficiency and courage to make their own choices, come fair weather or foul. Casting fate to the ocean winds without visible means of support in the third millennium demands a lot more guts than ever it did thirty years ago. Keeping going, despite producing three fine children and surviving a capsize off the Falklands that ended on the winch cable of an RAF helicopter, shows the true spirit of seafaring. TOM CUNLIFFE
