Sea Of Dreams: Racing Alone Around the World in a Small Boat
by Mayers, Adam

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Sea Of Dreams: Racing Alone Around the World in a Small Boat: The Around Alone yacht race is the most thrilling adventure in the world for the sailors passionate enough to undertake it. Held every four years, it's a two-class solo race that starts and ends in Newport, Rhode Island, with stops in England, South Africa, New Zealand, and Brazil, and it is as tough in its own way as the non-stop race, the Vendee Globe. In 2002, thirteen sailors took part, some of them professionals well funded by the corporate sponsors, and some of them adventurers so driven to compete that they were willing to make huge sacrifices. Among the adventurers was Derek Hatfield, a former fraud-squad Mountie, whose forty-foot Spirit of Canada had cost him almost everything he had.

The 2002 race took sailors through the wild storms of the Bay of Biscay, the frustration and infamous Doldrums, the angry Southern Ocean, and the treacherous seas off Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America. All of them are dangerous waters that stretched the sailors' abilities to the limit – and beyond.

In this nail-biting account of the race, Adam Mayers brings to life the joys, the agonies, the sheer terror the sailors had to face as a matter of course – and the dreams that drive these men and women to sail around the world alone.

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Weight:	0.54 kg
Price:	CDN$ 37.99 (US$ 36.97)

ISBN-10:	0771057539
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780771057533
Author:	Mayers, Adam
Publisher:	McClelland & Stewart Ltd Toronto, Ontario
Publication Date:	9/2004
Pages:	288 pages
Size/Dimensions:	9.25 x 6.25 x 1 inches
Binding:	Hardcover

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Sea Of Dreams: Racing Alone Around the World in a Small Boatby Mayers, Adam

Sea Of Dreams: Racing Alone Around the World in a Small Boat
by Mayers, Adam