The true story of Canada's greatest sailor, the first to sail
around the world single-handedly.
When Joshua Slocum sailed into port in Massachusetts on June 27,
1898, he was the first man ever to have completed a voyage around
the world without technology, money or companion. It took him three
years to cover the 46,000 miles, and along the way he was chased by
pirates, buffeted by storms, and narrowly escaped death by sharks.
When a goat ate his charts, he managed to navigate through the
Caribbean by memory and intuition.
This is the true-life adventure story of an extraordinary man, who
ran away to sea at sixteen and never looked back. Born on a farm in
Nova Scotia, he apprenticed on voyages to China, Hong Kong and
Indonesia; met and married his wife in Sydney, Australia, and
raised his family aboard sailing vessels in ports around the world.
He survived mutinies, lost cargoes, terrible storms, and
treacheries at sea before resolving on his voyage around the world
in a dilapidated oyster sloop he named The Spray. After settling
down and writing his memoirs, he set sail on November 14, 1909, and
was never seen again.
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