When Adrian Hayter set out single-handed from Lymington, England on
his thirty-two-foot Albert Strange-designed yawl Sheila II, local
betting was seven to one that he would get no further than the
English Channel. His destination was New Zealand, and the odds were
definitely against him. In 1949 perhaps only eight people had
sailed solo around the world, and single-handed long-distance
sailing voyages were rare. Adrian, then thirty-four, was a soldier,
not a sailor. In the previous decade he had been a close observer
of the Partition of India and fought as a soldier in the Second
World War and the Malayan Emergency. The latter, Britain's brutal
reaction to the Communist uprising of 1948, had driven his decision
to sail halfway around the world, single-handed. More than sixty
years later, and in the thirtieth anniversary year of Adrian's
death, Lodestar Books is republishing the story of that voyage,
Sheila in the Wind, first published by Hodder and Stoughton in
1959. As a sailor, Adrian recounts his foray into celestial
navigation, a back-street appendix operation in India, armed escort
by Indonesian authorities at sea, and eating barnacles off the hull
to avoid starvation. As a writer he is trying to make sense of the
humanitarian disasters that brought him to this voyage. Sheila in
the Wind is more than a report of a 13,000-mile adventure; it's a
story of the human spirit.
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