The Last of the Cape Horners - 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 The Last of the Cape Horners write by Spencer Apollonio. This book was released on 2000. The Last of the Cape Horners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers a full range of exciting, dangerous, and everyday shipboard experiences
Maine to Cape Horn
Maine to Cape Horn - 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 Maine to Cape Horn write by Charles H. Lagerbom. This book was released on 2021-08-02. Maine to Cape Horn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cape Horn conjures up images of wind-whipped waters and desperate mariners in frozen rigging. Long recognized as a maritime touchstone for sailors, it marks the spot where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet in one writhing mass. "Doubling" Cape Horn became the ultimate test, earning a prominent place in Maine maritime history. At the end of South America, it shares longitude 67° west exactly with Cutler, Maine, a direct north-south line of seven thousand miles. Maine Cape Horners were recognized by a golden earring. If they did not survive this most difficult journey in the world, the earring covered the costs of their funeral, should the body ever be found. Maritime historian Charles H. Lagerbom traveled to the end of the world to help research this exciting story of bold Mainers and their exhilarating and oftentimes deadly dance with danger.
The Cape Horners' Club
The Cape Horners' Club - 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 The Cape Horners' Club write by Adrian Flanagan. This book was released on 2017-04-20. The Cape Horners' Club available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water and weather patterns at the bottom of the world and funnels them into a maritime superhighway a mere 500 miles wide, building massive seas and accelerating wind speeds to hurricane strength. Currents rip at rates that defeat powerful engines. These legendarily treacherous conditions were enough to secure Cape Horn's reputation as the ultimate in ocean violence; the supreme test of sailors and ships. It is the oceanic equivalent of the climbers' Everest, and the challenge to some became irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitters with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier and Chay Blyth. This book recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the people who've taken it on and made it round – the Cape Horners' Club. From the first recorded single-hander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterwards and his body never found), we follow these very different protagonists as they pursue the ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is a history of the Cape, from its discovery to its use as a trading corridor until the opening of the Panama Canal, to its more recent role as a pure challenge for the best yachtsmen and yachtswomen in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact, but the pressure for ever-faster times has never been greater.
The Last of the Cape Horners
The Last of the Cape Horners - 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 The Last of the Cape Horners write by Claude Lombard Aubry Woollard. This book was released on 1967. The Last of the Cape Horners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Last of the Wind Ships
The Last of the Wind Ships - 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 The Last of the Wind Ships write by . This book was released on 2000. The Last of the Wind Ships available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A photographic record of early twentieth-century maritime history.
