Download or read book Oars Across the Pacific written by John Fairfax and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1973 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Fairfax and Silvia Cook were swept over the Great Barrier Reef and rowed into the shelter of Hayman Island off the Queensland coast, they had achieved what to most people seemed an impossibility - crossing the world's largest ocean by the strength of their own arms. It had taken them a year minus two days, with brief halts at Ensenada in Mexico, Washington Island, and the tiny island of Onotoa. Since Cyclone Emily some weeks before their arrival they had been given up for lost, and their triumphant landing brought acclaim from the whole world. This book is their own joint record, based on the separate log they each kept, of their preparations for the voyage, and what then happened when they left San Francisco on April 26 1971, in Britannia II, designed by Uffa Fox. It tells of the dangers they faced, of storms, shipwreck, and, most terrifying of all, the shark bite which brought John Fairfax bear death. In their own words they describe how they coped with the ordinary incidents of everyday living in such a confined space and in such extraordinary. Their close partnership triumphed over all the passing strains and perils of their experiences and has resulted in a remarkable book about their unique achievement. - http://ocean-rowers-essentials.myshopify.com/products/oars-across-the-pacific

Download or read book Oars Across the Pacific 8000 Miles by Rowing Boat by John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook written by John Fairfax and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Battling the Oceans in a Rowboat written by Mick Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most experienced ocean rowers details his two Atlantic Ocean crossings and his three attempts to row across the North Pacific Ocean, discussing how he overcame exhaustion; dealt with painful injury; and battled the elements.

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Download or read book Never Leave a Man Behind written by Mick Dawson and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mick Dawson's gripping Never Leave A Man Behind, effectively two adventure stories for the price of one, can be justifiably described as "unputdownable". Dawson is a man you would want on your side, whether in battle or tackling waves as high as houses should you ever consider rowing the Pacific.' Sports Book of the Month 'An excellent read, it puts you in the boat, understanding what it's like to be in an extremely challenging environment while maintaining composure, cheerfulness and respect for your fellow men. I cannot recommend it highly enough' Keith M. Breslauer, Trustee of The Royal Marines Charity 'Breathtaking - builds tension from the very start with life-and-death challenges throughout. Courage and comradeship at their very best, showing how mental and physical disabilities cannot and are not allowed to define or undermine the human self. Leaves you in awe and respect for one man determined to help his muckers win their battles whatever it takes - at great personal cost' Jonathan Ball, Director, The Royal Marines Charity The stories of two veterans - one traumatised, one blind - who rediscover themselves with the help of a friend in the course of two epic ocean adventures, kayaking around the Falklands and rowing across the Pacific. Mick Dawson tells the story of kayaking around the Falkland Islands with friend and fellow Royal Marines veteran Steve Grenham, who was struggling to cope with the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and the extraordinary tale of his 2,500-mile voyage in a rowing boat with his friend and former Royal Marine Commando Steve 'Sparky' Sparkes, who was not only a rowing novice, but also blind. Sparky and Mick succeeded in rowing across the finish line after a truly epic voyage of over 2,500 miles from Monterey Bay in California to Waikiki, Hawaii. They'd hoped to break the record for a two-man rowboat and finish in less than fifty-five days, but a hurricane interfered with their plans. It took them eighty-two days, sixteen hours and fifty-four minutes to complete the race, but it was an even greater achievement for that, and Sparky became the first visually impaired person to row across the Pacific. The race with Sparky was the second expedition of an organisation Mick had set up a few years earlier, The Cockleshell Endeavour, designed to help another former Royal Marine and friend, Steve Grenham, by kayaking with him around the Falklands, where both former commandos served during the 1982 conflict with Argentina.

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Download or read book The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hail from Deal, where my father was highly respected, not on account of his worldly wealth, for of that he had but small store, but because he was an honest, upright, God-fearing man, who did his duty to his neighbour, and ruled his family with discretion. And my motherÑshe was a mother!Ñso loving and gentle and considerate; she kept us, her children, of whom there were nine, I being the third, in excellent order, and yet we scarcely discovered the means she employed. We trusted her implicitly; we knew that she entered into all our sorrows as well as into our joys and amusements. How carefully she bound up a cut finger or bathed a bruised knee; or if we were trying to manufacture any toy, how ready she was to show us the best way to do the work; how warmly she admired it when finished, and how proudly she showed it to father when he came in. I was accustomed from my earliest days to the sight of ships coming into or going out of the Downs, or brought up before our town, and I used to listen with deep interest to the account of his adventures in all parts of the world with which our neighbour, Captain Bland, was wont to entertain us when he came to our house, or when we went in to take tea with him and Mrs Bland and their daughter Mary. I can, therefore, scarcely remember the time when I did not wish to become a sailor, though as my eldest brother Bill was intended for the sea, and indeed went away when I was still a little fellow, my father had thoughts of bringing me up to some trade or other. I should have been content to follow my fatherÕs wishes, or rather to have done what he believed best for me, had I been sent away inland, where I could not have heard nautical matters talked about, and where the sea and shipping would have been out of my sight. While I remained at home the desire grew stronger and stronger to become like the seafaring men I was constantly meetingÑpilots, masters and mates, and boatmenÑand I may venture to say that a finer race of sailors are nowhere to be found than those belonging to Deal.

Download or read book Rowing the Pacific written by Mick Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 May 2009, Mick Dawson and Chris Martin set from Choshi in Japan to row 7,000 miles across the North Pacific to San Francisco. This is their story.

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Download or read book A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World in the Years 1790 95 written by George Vancouver and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World written by George Vancouver and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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