Sailing to the Far Horizon: The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship

ISBN-13: 9780299201944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str.

Pamela Sisman Bitterman

Opis

The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand's North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naive swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos'un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Chapter 1 Joining the Sofia for Her Second Circumnavigation: Floating in Boston Chapter 2 Into the Teeth of Hurricane Kendra: My Maiden Voyage Chapter 3 Too Much Rum, Too Many Steel Drums: Too Long a Stay in the Windward Islands Chapter 4 Old World, Third World, Unspoiled World: The Dutch Antilles, Venezuela, the San Blas Archipelago Chapter 5 Great Escapes: The Trip Overland through Mexico and Central America Chapter 6 \u201c\u00bfD\u00f3nde Est\u00e1 American Embassy?\u201d: What the Travel Brochures Don't Tell You: Costa Rica, Panama, and the Galapagos Chapter 7 The World\u2019s Largest Espanse of Uninterrupted Ocean: Crossing the South Pacific to the Marquesas Chapter 8 The Most Beautiful Islands in the World: The Societies Chapter 9 Too Many Have Come before Us: The Cook Islands, the Samoas, and the Kingdom of Tonga Chapter 10 Deep in the Doldrums: Crossing the Horse Latitudes to New Zeland Chapter 11 Roll On, Deep and Dark Blue Ocean: The Mutiny and the Sofia's Final Passage Chapter 12 Off the North Cape: The Storm Chapter 13 Sinking: The Life Rafts Chapter 14 Coming Home Epilogue