"Spray (sailing vessel) The Spray was an oyster sloop which Joshua Slocum rebuilt and single-handedly sailed around the world, the first voyage of its kind. The ""Spray"" was lost with Captain Slocum aboard sometime on or after November 14, 1909, after sailing from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, bound for South America. In 1892, a friend, Captain Eben Pierce, offered Slocum a ship that ""wants some repairs"". Slocum went to Fairhaven, Massachusetts, to find that the ""ship"" was a rotting old oyster sloop named ""Spray"", propped-up in a field. Despite the major overhaul of the ship, Slocum kept her name ""Spray"", noting,"
"and witnessed the Romantic beauty of rural Europe. The Canadian-American Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898. Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop ""Spray"" and sailed her single-handed around the world. His book ""Sailing Alone Around the World"" was a classic adventure, and inspired many others to take to the seas. Other cruising authors have provided both inspiration and instruction to prospective cruisers. Key among these during the post World War II period are Electa and"
"documented in ""Sailing Tours"", mostly single-handed, in the yawl ""Lady Harvey"", a Dover fishing lugger built in 1867. In his 1921 book ""Single-Handed Cruising"", Francis B. Cooke claimed that no amateur yachtsman had ever single-handed a larger vessel. Cowper was a contemporary of the first single-handed sailor to circumnavigate the globe, the American Joshua Slocum, but where Slocum braved the oceans, the British coastal waters in which Cowper sailed are famous for their large tidal range and rife with hazardous rocks and currents. Cowper sold ""Lady Harvey"" in 1895, then building a ketch of his own design, ""Undine II"", which"
"the world of sailing Joshua Slocum's ""Sailing Alone Around the World"" (1900) is a classic of outdoor adventure literature. In April 1895, Joshua Slocum set sail from Boston, Massachusetts and in ""Sailing Alone Around the World"", he described his departure in the following manner: More than three years later, on June 27, 1898, Slocum returned to Newport, Rhode Island, having circumnavigated the world. A guide book or travel guide is ""a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists"". An early example is Thomas West's guide to the Lake District, published in 1778. Thomas"
"the first to sail solo around the world and wrote the classic book ""Sailing Alone Around the World"". Slocum learned to read and write at Mount Hanley School where today his origins are commemorated by a plaque and displays at the Mount Hanley Schoolhouse Museum. While at Mount Hanley, Slocum had his first experiences on the water on short schooner voyages from the nearby coves of Cottage Cove and Port George. He left Mount Hanley when he was eight years old when his family moved to Brier Island. Mount Hanley is also the birthplace of Clara Belle Marshall, the first"
"Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (born 15 July 1936, in Poland) is the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. She sailed from the Canary Islands on 28 February 1976, and returned there on 21 April 1978, completing a circumnavigation of 31,166 nautical miles (57,719 km) in 401 days. Orders Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz carried out her westabout (east to west) voyage on ""Mazurek"", a Conrad 32 sloop built in Poland. ""Mazurek"" was 9.51 metres (31.2 ft) long, with a beam of 2.70 metres (8.86 ft) and a sail area of 35 square"
"commissioned a 39' steel ketch which he named ""Joshua"", in honour of Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail around the world solo. Finally he and Françoise left Marseille in October 1963, leaving her three children in boarding schools. After wintering in Casablanca they sailed first to the Canaries, then to Trinidad, and through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands. After two years of spending time in each of these places they arrived at Tahiti, but realised that they were running out of time and that there was just eight months left to return to their children. So Moitessier"
"the world. He was awarded both prizes, and later donated the £5,000 to a fund supporting Crowhurst's family. Long-distance single-handed sailing has its beginnings in the nineteenth century, when a number of sailors made notable single-handed crossings of the Atlantic. The first single-handed circumnavigation of the world was made by Joshua Slocum, between 1895 and 1898, and many sailors have since followed in his wake, completing leisurely circumnavigations with numerous stopovers. However, the first person to tackle a single-handed circumnavigation as a speed challenge was Francis Chichester, who, in 1960, had won the inaugural ""Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race"" (""OSTAR""). In"
"the helm fast. He sailed west across the Pacific without once touching the helm. More than three years later, on June 27, 1898, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, having circumnavigated the world, a distance of more than 46,000 miles (74,000 km). Slocum's return went almost unnoticed. The Spanish–American War, which had begun two months earlier, dominated the headlines. After the end of major hostilities, many American newspapers published articles describing Slocum's amazing adventure. In 1899 he published his account of the epic voyage in ""Sailing Alone Around the World"", first serialized in ""The Century Magazine"" and then in several"
"propelled solely by mechanical powerplants, cannot carry the fuel sufficient for a point-to-point voyage of even 250–500 miles without needing to resupply; but a well-prepared sail-powered yacht of similar length is theoretically capable of sailing anywhere its crew is willing to guide it. Even considering that the cost benefits are offset by a much-reduced cruising speed, many people traveling distances in small boats come to appreciate the more leisurely pace and increased time spent on the water. Since the solo circumnavigation of Joshua Slocum in the 1890s, long-distance cruising under sail has inspired thousands of otherwise normal people to explore"
"(France), is among the first popular books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities, and tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags. In the world of sailing Joshua Slocum's ""Sailing Alone Around the World"" (1900) is a classic of outdoor literature. In April 1895, Joshua Slocum set sail from Boston, Massachusetts and in ""Sailing Alone Around the World"", he described his departure: More than three years later, on June 27, 1898, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, having circumnavigated the world, a distance of more than 46,000 miles (74,000 km). The National Outdoor Book Award was established"
"circumnavigation of the world. In March 1967, a 28-year-old British merchant marine officer, Robin Knox-Johnston, realised that a non-stop solo circumnavigation was ""about all there's left to do now"". Knox-Johnston had a wooden ketch, ""Suhaili"", which he and some friends had built in India to the William Atkin ""Eric"" design; two of the friends had then sailed the boat to South Africa, and in 1966 Knox-Johnston had single-handedly sailed her the remaining to London. Knox-Johnston was determined that the first person to make a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation should be British, and he decided that he would attempt to achieve this"
"route, eastabout and south of the three great capes, starting and finishing in the English Channel (a requirement for speed records). In 1988, Kay Cottee of Australia became the first woman to complete a ""non-stop"" single-handed circumnavigation, on ""Blackmore's First Lady"". Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (born 15 July 1936, in Poland) is the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e. solo) around the world, repeating the accomplishment of Joshua Slocum. She sailed from the Canary Islands on 28 February 1976, and returned there on 21 April 1978, completing a circumnavigation of 31,166 nautical miles (57,719 km) in 401 days. Orders"
"sailed round the world in 2005 aged 71. Jeanne Socrates Jeanne Socrates (born 17 August 1942) is a British yachtswoman. She holds the record as the oldest female to have circumnavigated the world single-handed, and she is the only woman to have circumnavigated solo nonstop from N. America. She was awarded the Cruising Club of America's Blue Water Medal in 2013. On 28 September 2017, after major injuries due to a fall from a ladder while working on her yacht ""Nereida"", a 38-foot Najad 380, she postponed a planned attempt to gain the record as the oldest circumnavigator of either"
"MD, Klingel supervised the wooden construction of a replica of SPRAY, the rotund sloop (eventually rerigged a yawl) in which Joshua Slocum became the first man to sail solo around the world in 1898. Klingel christened his 37' yawl BASILISK (after the common basilisk lizard that can run on the surface of water), and with the support of the American Museum of Natural History, it was fitted out as a biological laboratory, to be used for an expedition to gather information on rare species in the West Indies, especially lizards. Klingel had organized an earlier research trip to Haiti to"
"of climbing Mount Everest, and so many sailors seek it for its own sake. Joshua Slocum was the first single-handed yachtsman to successfully pass this way (in 1895) although in the end, extreme weather forced him to use some of the inshore routes between the channels and islands and it is believed he did not actually pass outside the Horn proper. If one had to go by strict definitions, the first small boat to sail around outside Cape Horn was the yacht ""Saoirse"", sailed by Conor O'Brien with three friends, who rounded it during a circumnavigation of the world between"
"Harry Pidgeon Harry Clifford Pidgeon (August 31, 1869 – November 4, 1954) was an American sailor, a noted photographer, and was the second person to sail single-handedly around the world (1921-1925), 23 years after Joshua Slocum, a professional sea captain. Pidgeon was the first person to sail a yacht around the world via the Panama Canal and the Cape of Good Hope, the first person to solo-circumnavigate by way of the Panama Canal, and the first person to solo circumnavigate the world twice. On both trips around the world, he sailed a 34-foot yawl named the ""Islander"", which Pidgeon constructed"
"his longest layover in Pilos, Greece, where he waited over 30 days for the repairs and better weather. After a two-month 2,000-mile (3,200 km) journey, Seymour passed through the Strait of Gibraltar with $38 worth of food and headed for home. Although he was certified by sailing authorities as being the 161st person to make the circumnavigation solo, he received little mention in the press outside of a few sailing magazines. The Joshua Slocum Society, the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey, ""Sea Magazine"", ""St. Croix Avis"", ""New York Times"", among many others, all acknowledge his accomplishment."
"Slocum, the first person to sail solo around the world and author of ""Sailing Alone Around the World"". Frederick King married Hazel Hope Hubbard on 12 August 1914 in Berkeley, California and had one daughter and one son: Frederick G. King descends from, on his maternal line, Thomas Wiswall (1601–1683) who was an early settler of British America, a prominent early citizen of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a key figure in the founding of Cambridge Village (now known as the city of Newton, Massachusetts), John Oliver (1616-1646), one of the earliest graduates of Harvard College (1645) and Mayflower passengers"
"Jeanne Socrates Jeanne Socrates (born 17 August 1942) is a British yachtswoman. She holds the record as the oldest female to have circumnavigated the world single-handed, and she is the only woman to have circumnavigated solo nonstop from N. America. She was awarded the Cruising Club of America's Blue Water Medal in 2013. On 28 September 2017, after major injuries due to a fall from a ladder while working on her yacht ""Nereida"", a 38-foot Najad 380, she postponed a planned attempt to gain the record as the oldest circumnavigator of either sex, currently held by Japanese Minoru Saitō who"
"Howard, after a disagreement with his partners left the group in San Francisco after a short trip to Portland, Oregon to buy lumber to help finance the trip, and returned home never having panned for gold. After the quest for gold failed, Blackburn turned his attention to a new challenge — to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean. This had been done before, by Alfred ""Centennial"" Johnson in 1876, and Joshua Slocum had completed a single-handed circumnavigation in 1898; but for a man with no fingers to undertake such a voyage would be quite an accomplishment. He sailed from Gloucester"
"Apparently, John Voss and his companion in this venture, Norman Luxton, were inspired by the voyage of Joshua Slocum, who sailed the sloop ""Spray"" around the world a few years earlier and wrote a best selling book about his adventures. The boat was refitted - reinforced, covered and rigged with sail, in total, and readied for her voyage. ""Tilikum"" was sailed out of Oak Bay harbour on May 20, 1901, captained by Voss and mated by Luxton. After 10,000 miles (about 16000 km) and five months on the Pacific Ocean, ""Tilikum"" struck a reef and Luxton was thrown from the"
"accounts of these adventures in ""Voyage of the Liberdade"". In the northern winter of 1893/94, Slocum undertook what he described as at that time being ""the hardest voyage that I have ever made, without any exception at all."" It involved delivering the steam-powered torpedo boat ""Destroyer"" from the east coast of the United States to Brazil. ""Destroyer"" was a ship 130 feet in length, conceived by the Swedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer John Ericsson, and intended for the defence of harbours and coastal waters. Equipped in the early 1880s with sloping armour plate and a bow-mounted submarine gun it was"
"her book ""Voyaging on a Small Income"". Her ship ""Badger"" was designed by Jay Benford. Bill King sailed the junk schooner (i.e. junk rigged boat with two masts) ""Galway Blazer II"" in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. Joshua Slocum and his family built and sailed a junk rigged boat ""Liberdade"" from Brazil to Washington, DC after the wreck of his barque ""Aquidneck"". Slocum had high praise for the practicality of the junk rig: ""Her rig was the Chinese sampan style, which is, I consider, the most convenient boat rig in the whole world."" Herbert ""Blondie"" Hasler sailed a junk-rigged"
"who made the first solo circumnavigation of the globe by sailboat. They proposed harnessing energy from the thermal gradient between deep ocean water (2-4 °C) and surface water (near atmospheric temperature) to achieve globe-circling range, constrained only by battery power on board for communications, sensors, and navigational computers. By 2003, not only had a working thermal-powered glider (""Slocum Thermal"") been demonstrated by Webb Research (founded by Doug Webb), but they and other institutions had introduced battery-powered gliders with impressive duration and efficiency, far exceeding that of traditional survey-class AUVs. These vehicles have been widely deployed in the years since then."
"accomplished. ""Single-handed"" does not imply ""non-stop"", so a single-handed circumnavigation counts as such even with stops, as in Joshua Slocum's voyage. Single-handed sailing has become a major competitive sport, and there are a number of prominent single-handed offshore races. The Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) and the Route du Rhum are trans-Atlantic single-handed races. The single handed transpac (SHTP) starts off Tiburon in the San Francisco Bay, and ends in Hanalei Bay, Kauai. Round-the-world yacht racing began with the single-handed Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. Two modern round-the-world races descended from this event are the VELUX 5 Oceans Race (Around Alone),"
"a later era might call a kind of mechanical autopilot. He took pride in the fact that the ""Spray"" sailed 2000 miles west across the Pacific without his once touching the helm. In the mid-1950s, Robert Carr of Monkton, Vermont, built a replica of the ""Spray"" using the shipbuilding methods of the late 1800s. He announced his intention to sail around the world recreating Slocum's voyage. While one article reported the replica ""Spray"" and Carr's announcement, there is no documented evidence that he made a circumnavigation. Sailing Alone Around the World Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir"
"Identification System has become available to non-commercial shipping, providing advance warning of collision risks. The recorded history of modern single-handed voyages begins with an American sailor, Josiah Shackford, who is reported to have sailed from France to Surinam, in South America, although this has not been reliably authenticated. Another unauthenticated voyage is that of Captain Cleveland of Salem, who was said to have sailed nearly around the world single-handed in a boat around 1800. A more likely account is that of J.M. Crenston, who is reported to have sailed a boat from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to San Francisco (whether by"
"of Jason's human powered circumnavigation journey continued through Southeastern Asia and India before crossing the Arabian Sea to the African shores, from where he aimed north toward the Middle East and Europe, eventually returning to his starting point in England. During his expedition, Lewis twice survived malaria, septicaemia, a bout of mild schizophrenia, and a crocodile attack near Australia in 2005. Expedition 360 Expedition 360 is the name of a successful attempt by Briton Jason Lewis to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe using only human power – no motors or sails. It was begun by Lewis and"
"themselves stranded in the Philippines without a ship. While in the Philippines, in 1874, under a commission from a British architect, Slocum organized native workers to build a 150-ton steamer in the shipyard at Subic Bay. In partial payment for the work, he was given the ninety-ton schooner, ""Pato"" (Spanish for ""Duck""), the first ship he could call his own. Ownership of the ""Pato"" afforded Slocum the kind of freedom and autonomy he had never experienced before. Hiring a crew, he contracted to deliver a cargo to Vancouver in British Columbia. Thereafter, he used the ""Pato"" as a general freight"
"Slocum, a Bostonian, was a single-handed yachtsman took that route, in 1895. Extreme weather forced Slocum to use some of the inshore routes between the channels and islands of Cape Horn and it is believed he may not have actually passed outside the Horn proper. O'Brien's seagoing experiences were put to use in his design of the ""A K Ilen"" which was built for the Falkland Islands as a service boat. In 1998 the ""Ilen"" returned to the site where it was first built, on the river Ilen near Baltimore in south-west Ireland, where it is currently undergoing a full"
"many races and individual sailors following the clipper route. A circumnavigation via the great capes is considered to be a noteworthy achievement. Sailor Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the world in 1895–98, and the Joshua Slocum Society International presented its Level 3 Golden Circle Award to sailors who solo circumnavigated passing the great capes. In his book ""The Long Way"", Bernard Moitessier tries to express the significance to a sailor of the great capes: Other southern capes mark significant points of passage through the southern oceans. The five southernmost capes refer to the five geographically southern mainland"
"constructed ""gas house"" in the cove below the lighthouse. Red stripes were added to the tower in 1908 to make the tower more visible against the snow. Sambro served as the departure point from North America for Joshua Slocum's famous solo navigation around the world in 1895. After an extended visit to his boyhood home at Brier Island and old haunts on the coast of Nova Scotia, Joshua Slocum departed on his around the world voyage from Sambro Island Lighthouse on July 3, 1895. ""I watched light after light sink astern as I sailed into the unbounded sea, till Sambro,"