Download or read book The Last of the Cape Horners written by Claude Lombard Aubry Woollard and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last of the Cape Horners written by Claude L. Woollard and published by . This book was released on 1987-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last of the Cape Horners written by Spencer Apollonio and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers a full range of exciting, dangerous, and everyday shipboard experiences
Download or read book The Cape Horners Club written by Adrian Flanagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Maine to Cape Horn written by Charles H. Lagerbom and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Last Time Around Cape Horn written by William F. Stark and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.
Download or read book The Cape Horners Club written by Adrian Flanagan and published by Adlard Coles. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Horn--the very name conjures images of churning seas, ice-laden rigging, howling winds, and impossible currents. Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has extracted from those sailors 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. Cape Horn intrudes into the flow of 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 sailors becomes irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitter with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier, Chay Blyth, Ellen MacArthur . . . The Cape Horners' Club recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the sailors who've successfully made it around--the legendary Cape Horners' Club. From the very first recorded singlehander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterward and his body never found), we follow these vastly different protagonists as they pursue the sailor's ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is the history of Cape Horn, 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 very best sailors in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact on the nature of the challenge, but the pressure for ever-faster rounding times has never been greater.
Download or read book The Swansea Copper Barques and Cape Horners written by Joanna Greenlaw and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last of the Wind Ships written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic record of early twentieth-century maritime history.
Download or read book The Great Days of the Cape Horners written by Yves Le Scal and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sailor s Yarns and Observations written by Dean Nichols and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Nichols may be a crusty, old River Rat, but he is a real Christian. And he tells it like it is. Michael Sorace body shop owner and member of Christian bikers group, Sons of Thunder Dean Nichols writes in depth on the lofty principals of life, with emphasis on the quintessence of old and sacred traditions. Dr. Anthony Amendola Christian Psychologist In this man's writings, I found a kindred spirit. Bob Wagstaff School Principal and Creation Science teacher Mr. Nichols writes in the old traditions, the 'Spun yarns of old.' We relive some very important parts of our American heritage through these delightful, often profound stories. Sylvana Amendola Christian Counselor
Download or read book Merchant Sail written by William Armstrong Fairburn and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Port of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Windjammers written by Robert Carter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blend of interviews, diary extracts and stories. All illustrated with 42 of Robert Carter's beautiful and detailed paintings. They are not just illustrations of ships. Each comes with its own description, revealing more about the days of sail. Includes photographs, line drawings and maps. The book reveals real life stories from the final 50 years in the life of the last commercial sailing ships which ended in 1959.
Download or read book The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
Download or read book The Mariner s Book of Days 2006 written by Peter H. Spectre and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Grain Race written by Eric Newby and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.
