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Solitaire Spirit - Three Times Around the World Single-Handed (Paperback)
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Solitaire Spirit - Three Times Around the World Single-Handed (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 690
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Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided
to sail solo around the world. Many novices would be content to
just dream of such an adventure, and maybe get as far as a solo
Channel crossing a couple of years down the line. Not so Les
Powles, one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary and
eccentric sailors.
Les was in his 50s when he built himself a yacht with little prior
knowledge of boatbuilding. Remarkably he made it across the
Atlantic, though his navigation skills didn't match his
boatbuilding abilities. His first landfall was Brazil. He'd been
aiming for Barbados - 100 miles north, and in a different
hemisphere
Three complete solo circumnavigations followed, all of them full of
incident. The last one saw him given up for dead when he hadn't
been heard from for four months. His boat had been damaged in a
storm, he'd lost all communications and had virtually run out of
food. When he sailed up the Lymington River (aged 70) in a skeletal
state his arrival caused a media frenzy. Lymington Marina
subsequently gave him a free berth for life.
A terrific achiever who has beaten the odds, Les Powles tells his
story in a lively, entertaining, humorous and compelling way. It
will resonate with sailors and non sailors alike, and may inspire
one of them to become the twenty-first century's Les Powles.
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