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Gipsy Moth Circles the World (The Sailor's Classics #1) Francis Chichester

Gipsy Moth Circles the World (The Sailor's Classics #1) By Francis Chichester

Gipsy Moth Circles the World (The Sailor's Classics #1) by Francis Chichester


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This work tells the story of Frances Chichester, who aged 65, set out alone from Plymouth in his 53-foot ketch "Gypsy Moth VI" in August 1966 and sailed eastward around the world through the wild Southern Ocean, stopping only once in Sydney.

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Gipsy Moth Circles the World (The Sailor's Classics #1) Summary

Gipsy Moth Circles the World (The Sailor's Classics #1) by Francis Chichester

This work tells the story of Frances Chichester, who aged 65, set out alone from Plymouth in his 53-foot ketch "Gypsy Moth VI" in August 1966 and sailed eastward around the world through the wild Southern Ocean, stopping only once - the first to accomplish this - in Sydney. Only nine yachts had previously circumnavigated by way of Cape Horn, and of them six had been capsized or somersaulted at least once. This 28,000-mile voyage, completed in May 1967, established new records for speed and endurance, captured the imagination of the world, and earned a knighthood for Chichester upon his return.

About Francis Chichester

Sir Francis Chichester was a lifetime adventurer. In 1929 he flew his plane solo from London to Sydney. In 1931, while trying to complete the circle from Sydney back to London, he was nearly killed when he flew into a half-mile span of steel telephone wires in Katsuura, Japan. As the years passed and flying was transformed from a pioneering activity to a technologically sophisticated one, Chichester turned to sailing as an outlet for his restless spirit. He made a record-breaking solo crossing of the North Atlantic in 1962, and then conceived his around-the-world voyage as his next challenge, saying, I hate being frightened but, even more, I detest being prevented by fright. At the same time the Horn had a fearsome fascination, and it offered one of the greatest challenges left in the world. Chichester died in the 1970s.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jonathan RabanOne. The DreamTwo. FrustrationsThree. The "Off" at LastFour. My Sixty-Fifth Birthday PartyFive. Whistling for Wind and RainSix. The Roaring FortiesSeven. Overcoming DisasterEight. Bass StraitNine. In AustraliaTen. Capsize in the Tasman SeaEleven. "I Have Been Damned Lucky"Twelve. Two ThursdaysThirteen. To the HornFourteen. Rounding Cape HornFifteen. Into the Broad AtlanticSixteen. Trade Winds and DoldrumsSeventeen. A Pleasant Sail at Last!An Epilogue by J. R. L. AndersonA Wife's Part in High Adventure by Sheila ChichesterAppendix I. Log BooksAppendix II. Stores and StowageAppendix III. Sail Plan of Gipsy Moth IV

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CIN0071364498VG
9780071364492
0071364498
Gipsy Moth Circles the World (The Sailor's Classics #1) by Francis Chichester
Used - Very Good
Hardback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
2000-10-16
288
N/A
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