Cape Horn - The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without a Port of Call

Recounts the Moitessiers' honeymoon trip from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back along the "logical route" via Cape Horn, a path chosen for its speed, which took them through the Roaring Forties, iceberg territory and the relentless gale-force winds of the higher latitudes.

List of contents

Foreword
Part I. Birds of Passage
1. My Paper Boat
2. Like a Well-trained Monkey
3. Like a Lost Dog
4. The Wheel Turns
5. Afloat at Last
6. Towards the Tropics
7. In the Open Sea
8. The Fickle Trades
9. Meeting Place of Ocean Birds
10. Atlantic
11. The Great Turning Point
12. Panama--Galapagos
13. A World which Fear has Spared
14. At the Gates to Polynesia
15. A Dream at a Price

Part II. The Logical Route
1. Preparations
2. A Start...Like any Other
3. A Whole Gales
4. In the Heavy Seas of the High Latitudes or the Game of the Little Squares
5. Cape Horn to Port
6. On the Look-out for Icebergs
7. The Horse Latitudes
8. Trade Winds...from the West!

Part III. Appendices
Designer's Notes
Author's Notes

About the author

Bernard Moitessier was one of the world's great small-baot sailors. He wrote four other books, all classics of nautical literature. Sailing to the Reefs was Moitessier's first book. The Long Way covered the famous Golden Globe race that he abandoned to "save [his] soul." A Sea Vagabond's World is a practical book and Tamata and the Alliance, finished shortly before his death in 1994, is the magnificent autobiography of this uncommon man.

Summary

Recounts the Moitessiers' honeymoon trip from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back along the "logical route" via Cape Horn, a path chosen for its speed, which took them through the Roaring Forties, iceberg territory and the relentless gale-force winds of the higher latitudes.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Moitessier
• Assisted by: Inge Moore (Translation), Moore Inge (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781574091540
• ISBN: 978-1-57409-154-0
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 215 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 327 g
• Illustrations: 27 BW Illustrations
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; NATURE / General, Sailing, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, natural history, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Sailing / yachting, Oceanography (seas), SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Sailing, Europe to the Islands