Around Cape Horn Once More
Around Cape Horn Once More

Author: Paul W Simpson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1365112012

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Around Cape Horn Once More is the story of the French Bounty Clipper Ship, Montebello. She was built in Nantes, France in 1900 and was lost on the rugged and lonely south coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia in 1906. This book is a tale of the adventures of the Montebello and the men who sailed her around the globe. It brings to light a period of France's maritime history that has never before been told in such thrilling and dramatic detail. ""we heard the roar of breakers, and then we knew that we were close to the land, and there was still no visible light. All hands turned out to put on canvas with a view to heading the vessel off the shore, but we had received the warning too late and within a few minutes we had struck on the fearful rocks. The ship shivered all over with the shock. I shall never forget the sensation it created. She bumped hard several times and threatened to go to pieces at any moment. The seas broke over her from end to end.""

Around Cape Horn
Around Cape Horn

Author: Charles Davis

Publisher: Down East Books

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1461741831

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Charles Davis was one of the world's leading maritime model builders. During the first half of the last century, he was also acclaimed as an artist, historian, and author. This is his recollection of one of his first adventures at sea: sailing out of New York in 1892 on a voyage around Cape Horn, aboard the bark James A. Wright.

Forty-niners 'round the Horn
Forty-niners 'round the Horn

Author: Charles R. Schultz

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781570033292

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Drawing upon more than one hundred unpublished diaries, Schultz profiles the individuals who embarked on these journeys and demonstrates how markedly the gold rush voyages differed from general commercial trading and whaling ventures."--BOOK JACKET.

Two Against Cape Horn
Two Against Cape Horn

Author: Hal Roth

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780540071449

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A tale of high adventure at sea in one of the least known parts of the world.

Solo around Cape Horn
Solo around Cape Horn

Author: Edward Allcard

Publisher: Imperator Publishing

Published: 2016-12-31

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0956072240

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The year is 1966, and a pioneering English yachtsman heads south - alone - towards Cape Horn, and into a territory unknown to yachtsmen. This is the tale of a wilderness cruise on the desert coast of Argentina and in the snowy Chilean fjords, but between the two halves, at the summit of the adventure, is the story of a sailor fighting for his life.

Maine to Cape Horn
Maine to Cape Horn

Author: Charles H. Lagerbom

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-08-02

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1439673209

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Cape Horn conjures up images of wind-whipped waters and desperate mariners in frozen rigging. Long recognized as a maritime touchstone for sailors, it marks the spot where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet in one writhing mass. "Doubling" Cape Horn became the ultimate test, earning a prominent place in Maine maritime history. At the end of South America, it shares longitude 67° west exactly with Cutler, Maine, a direct north-south line of seven thousand miles. Maine Cape Horners were recognized by a golden earring. If they did not survive this most difficult journey in the world, the earring covered the costs of their funeral, should the body ever be found. Maritime historian Charles H. Lagerbom traveled to the end of the world to help research this exciting story of bold Mainers and their exhilarating and oftentimes deadly dance with danger.

The Last Time Around Cape Horn
The Last Time Around Cape Horn

Author: William F. Stark

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2009-04-29

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0786740051

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In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.

Cape Horn to Starboard
Cape Horn to Starboard

Author: John Kretschmer

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781580801621

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Legendary account of the author's voyage around Cape Horn in a 32-foot sailboat, sailing east-to-west (thus the Horn is to starboard, or on the right). This is a notoriously difficult and dangerous passage, especially in a boat this size.

Keturah Came 'Round the Horn
Keturah Came 'Round the Horn

Author: Ada Claire Darby

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1434465276

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A Story of Old California from the author of "Yonder the Golden Gate," "On the Trail to Santa Fe," Sometimes Jenny Wren," etc.