Product Description
1974.
First American Edition.
237 pages.
Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt to spine.
Black and white photographs.
In English.
Dimensions: 21.
5cm x 14.
5cm x 3cm.
Signed with dedication from the author on title page, dated 1978.
A map showing the route on front and rear endpapers.
An exhilarating account of racing across the Atlantic in 1972 in a sloop measuring barely 5 metres.
Written as diary entries that record storms, a too-close encounter with a German cargo ship and nearly losing the rudder to an angry shark.
Mild foxing to textblock edges.
Binding is firm, but book has slight forward lean.
Boards have insignificant rubbing and corner bumping and only mild tanning and marking.
The unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing and a small area of loss on rear.
Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces with a little water marking.
A must for any yachtsperson.
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