Aloha Around The World Classic Reprint

Author : Karl Vogel
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ISBN 13 : 9781330599723
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Aloha Around the World (Classic Reprint) written by Karl Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Aloha Around the World The dream of a lifetime has been accomplished! Ever since as a boy my imagination was fired by Lady Brassey's inimitable "Voyage of the Sunbeam," to circumnavigate the globe, it has been my fixed purpose to go and do likewise. In 1893, the first step in preparation was taken when my father gave me the grand old schooner yacht Coronet, and in her the first lessons in seamanship and navigation were taken, under the tutelage of a type of seaman I regret to say now almost extinct - Captain C. S. Crosby - who, I verily believe, had never in his sixty years and more at sea been in anything but a sailing ship. My wife and I sailed nearly 60,000 miles including trips to the West Indies, the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, and many voyages along the eastern coast of the United States, but most instructive and enjoyable of all, a five months' expedition to Japan, outward bound by way of the Trade Winds and the Hawaiian Islands and returning across the North Pacific on the great circle from Yokohama to San Francisco. Coronet was, of course, strictly a sailing vessel, without auxiliary power, of only 160 tons, 125 ft. long and 27 ft. beam, but an ideal type in which the young and inexperienced sailor could gain experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.