Cape Horn

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

Bernard Moitessier - Translated by Inge Moore

This is the story of Bernard and Françoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn, the "logical route," because it was the fastest. Setting out from Tahiti, they make their way through the Roaring Forties, iceberg territory, and the relentless gale-force winds of the higher latitudes. They owe their survival to careful preparation, superior seamanship, and their sens of harmony with Joshua and the sea.

Cape Horn is also the tale of how Joshua, Moitessier's dream boat, became a reality, and how he recovered from the disaster of losing his previous boat--which he himself had built--to pursue his great love: sailing the world's oceans.

Globe Pequot / Sheridan House

Pages: 251 • Trim: 5¾ x 8½

978-1-57409-154-0 • Paperback • April 2003 • $16.50 • (£12.99)

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers, Sports & Recreation / Sailing, Travel / Special Interest / Adventure

Cape Horn

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

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Summary

This is the story of Bernard and Françoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn, the "logical route," because it was the fastest. Setting out from Tahiti, they make their way through the Roaring Forties, iceberg territory, and the relentless gale-force winds of the higher latitudes. They owe their survival to careful preparation, superior seamanship, and their sens of harmony with Joshua and the sea.

Cape Horn is also the tale of how Joshua, Moitessier's dream boat, became a reality, and how he recovered from the disaster of losing his previous boat--which he himself had built--to pursue his great love: sailing the world's oceans.

Details

Globe Pequot / Sheridan House

Pages: 251 • Trim: 5¾ x 8½

978-1-57409-154-0 • Paperback • April 2003 • $16.50 • (£12.99)

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers, Sports & Recreation / Sailing, Travel / Special Interest / Adventure

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.

Table 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