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Author: Captain Joshua Slocum
Date: 15 Oct 2018
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Original Languages: English
Format: Paperback::266 pages
ISBN10: 0343337908
ISBN13: 9780343337902
File size: 9 Mb
Dimension: 156x 234x 14mm::376g

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I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. The twelve-o'clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. A superb sailor and navigator, he had 46,000 miles under Spray's keel when classic of travel literature and adventure, Sailing Alone Around the World. Sloop Spray Souvenir, with a piece of the boat's mainsail tipped-in. Around the World in the Sloop Spray book. Read reviews from world's largest community for readers. Called the greatest sailor of the 19th About Sailing Alone Around the World. Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time.It remains one of the major feats of singlehanded voyaging, and has since been the One of the best adventure books ever written, Sailing Alone Around the World is the true story of Joshua Slocum s solo voyage around the world - the first of its kind. Setting off in 1895 aboard a 35 foot sloop named The Spray,Slocum sails 46,000 miles crossing the Atlantic twice, navigating the Straits of Magellan, crossing the ride through the southern oceans on his 1896 voyage with his sloop Spray. Slocum, in his 1900 classic, Sailing Alone Around The World. Slocum set out from Boston in 1895 aboard his sloop Spray. When he finally Captain Joshua Slocum's voyage around the globe undefined. Around the World in the Sloop Spray; Describing Captain Slocum's Voyage Alone Around the World book. Read 532 reviews from the world's largest community "Around the World in the Sloop Spray Joshua Slocum. Title Around the World in the Sloop Spray. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. a former sailing ship captain named Joshua Slocum cast off his dock lines in East Boston and set out to sail alone around the world in the 37' sloop Spray. An Intrepid Navigator: Capt. Slocum Arrives in Fairhaven from a Voyage Around the World. Fairhaven Star,July 9, 1898. Captain Joshua Slocum, the intrepid navigator, who in April, 1895, started from Boston in the 33 foot yawl Spray on a trip around the world, dropped anchor above the bridge, within a short distance from the spot where the Spray was built, Sunday. Sailing Alone Around the World, illustrated Thomas Fogarty and George Varian, Century Co. (New York, NY), 1900, reprinted, Regatta Press (Mount Kisco, NY), 2000, published as Around the World in the Sloop Spray, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY), 1903. Captain Joshua Slocum set out in April 24, 1895 to sail around the world. He departed from Boston in a sloop called the Spray. He returned, as he says with his the mystery of the sloop spray.; evidences of murder discovers on board - pursuit and capture of the chinaman in new-jersey -a large sum of money found in his possession -his account of himself. As the first person to ever complete a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, Joshua Slocum recounts his pioneering feat in Sailing Alone Around the World (1899), an engaging memoir of his adventures aboard the sloop Spray.An immediate success, the Slocum clung to the opportunity and worked during 13 months to turn the rotten hull into a fast and seaworthy sloop. The Spray was finally launched in 1893. Joshua Slocum. On his way around the globe, Slocum visited some of the remotest corners of the world Around the World in the Sloop Spray:Describing Captain Slocum's Voyage Alone Around the World [Joshua Slocum, Thomas Fogarty] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sailing alone around the world Joshua Slocum; 39 editions; First published in 1900; Subjects: Spray (Sloop), Single-handed sailing, Sailing, From the board of Bruce Roberts (Modified Spray) she is a world class vessel Boston in his tiny sloop Spray and sailed around the world single-handed, The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum Geoffrey Wolff his 1900 book, Sailing Alone Around the World, which recounts that adventure. When a friend offered him an ancient and decrepit 37-foot fishing sloop. Without another sailor, Spray would have to steer itself for days on end. Around the World in the Sloop Spray:Describing Captain Slocum's Voyage Alone Around the World [Joshua Slocum, Thomas Fogarty] on *FREE* Departure from Rio de Janeiro The Spray ashore on the sands of Uruguay A narrow escape from shipwreck The boy who found a sloop The Spray Around The World in the Sloop Spray: Describing Captain Slocum's Voyage Alone Ar [Captain Joshua Slocum] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying Sailing Alone Around the World is the story of an aging sea captain who, in 1893, An acquaintance gifted him the decrepit remains of a small boat called the Spray. It was a 37-foot oyster sloop, whose wood had rotten away and left little of its Around the World (1900) is a sailing memoir Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. First published in book form in 1900, this is a sailing memoir Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success a Läs mer On April 24, 1895, Captain Joshua Slocum set out on a three-year journey to circumnavigate the world alone boat. Crossing the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in his sloop, the Spray, Slocum visited South Africa, South America, and Australia before returning home as the first man to successfully sail around the world solo. Joshua Slocum rebuilt an old sloop called the Spray in Fairhaven in and on it later became the first person to sail around the world alone. For the first time a man had sailed around the world alone. The 'ship' proved to be a very antiquated sloop called Spray' affectionately The Spray was a 11.20 m oyster sloop rebuilt Joshua Slocum and used him to sail single-handed around the world, the first voyage of its kind. The boat can be both cat rigged (just the mainsail) or sloop rigged with the optional jib. Behavior quickly made it popular with dinghy sailors all over the world. Lessons on Spray focus on cruising and basic sailing skills including care and Capt. Joshua Slocum yawl SPRAY. Captain Slocum completed wit this baat the First Solitary Voyage around the World (1895-1898). He also sent his card. Chart of the Spray's course around the world April 24, 1895, to July 3, 1898. Were added the words Sloop Spray, March, 1896. Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six-foot wooden sloop Spray in An 1898 photo of the Spray. Spray has long been a popular name for sailboats. Do you know why? He sailed around the world, all alone, in a sloop named Spray. "He" was Joshua Slocum. It happened way back in the late 19th century, and his voyage made nautical history. He

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