Chasing the Wind: A Book of High Adventure - Softcover

Hal Roth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0924486554 ISBN 13: 9780924486555

Publisher: Sheridan House, 1990

Synopsis

The author's account, mostly in log form, of his participation in the 1990-91 BOC Challenge round-the-world single-handed race, in which he overcame a series of major problems, including a capsize he narrowly survived.

About this title

About the Author

Hal Roth left his career as a journalist and editor more than thirty-five years ago and, with his wife, Margaret, went sailing. Since then, they have crossed all the oceans of the world and sailed to a thousand foreign ports and anchorages. Hal also raced twice around the world singlehanded, in the BOC Challenges of 1986-87 and 1990-91. He has accumulated 200,000 voyaging miles and has sailed to the Aleutian Islands, Japan, the North American West Coast, throughout the South Pacific, around South America, the Caribbean, the U.S. East Coast, Newfoundland, Labrador, and the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Mediterranean. He has crossed the Pacific five times and the Atlantic eleven times and has rounded Cape Horn three times. A graceful writer and accomplished photographer, Hal has written eight books about his adventures and one how-to book, After 50,000 Miles, which has sold more than 60,000 copies in its various editions. Two Against Cape Horn, Two on a Big Ocean, and Always a Distant Anchorage rank among the true classics of voyaging literature. He is one of the world s half dozen most accomplished sailing writers. HOMETOWN: St. Michaels, MD

Edition details

• Publisher: Sheridan House
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0924486554
• ISBN 13: 9780924486555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336