[Download free pdf] Around the World Single-Handed: The Cruise of the "Islander" (Dover Maritime)
• Harry Pidgeon •
| #236279 in Books | 2012-04-19 | 2012-03-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.56 x5.49l,.64 | File Name: 0486259463 | 288 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Short but sweet!|By John the Reader|Harry Pidgeon, a farm boy from Iowa did not even see the sea until he was eighteen but by then he had "mucked about" a bit in boats as do most lads and after a spell in Alaska, he decided to build one of the famous Rudder Magazines 'Islander' sloops. Having completed his thirty four foot wooden sailing boat, single-handed, without "too much
"The Islander was my first attempt at building a sailboat, but I don't suppose there ever was an amateur built craft that so nearly fulfilled the dream of her owner, or that a landsman ever came so near to weaving a magic carpet of the sea." So begins this fascinating first-person narrative by a man who did what many dream of but few accomplish. Between 1921 and 1925 Harry Pidgeon circumnavigated the globe in a sailboat of his own construction, experience... [PDF.ik45] Around the World Single-Handed: The Cruise of the "Islander" (Dover Maritime) Rating: 3.91 (697 Votes)
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