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Sailing by Starlight is the story of the adventure of a lifetime--in fact, of many lifetimes. In the early 1980s, retired geography professor Marvin Creamer set out to do what hadn't been done for a thousand years--if indeed it had ever been done at all: Marv and his crew boarded a 35' sailboat named Globe Star and set out into the frigid Atlantic, planning to sail around the world without the use of any instruments. There was no sextant aboard. No compass. No chart-plotter. No GPS. No radar. Not even a stopwatch. Creamer wanted to prove to the world that it was possible for ancient mariners to have crossed the largest seas, perhaps even sailed around the world, using only their brains, their experience, their senses, and their courage. In attempting to prove his point, Creamer would push his boat and his crew to the limit--and occasionally beyond.
Travel with Creamer as Globe Star sails around the perilous Horn, across dangerous and tumultuous seas, and into an active war zone. Sail around the world with a man who was taken prisoner by an idea, a man obsessed with proving a point, and who would let neither 40-foot waves nor fractious crewmembers deter him.
Sailing by Starlight is the story of the adventure of a lifetime--in fact, of many lifetimes. In the early 1980s, retired geography professor Marvin Creamer set out to do what hadn't been done for a thousand years--if indeed it had ever been done at all: Marv and his crew boarded a 35' sailboat named Globe Star and set out into the frigid Atlantic, planning to sail around the world without the use of any instruments. There was no sextant aboard. No compass. No chart-plotter. No GPS. No radar. Not even a stopwatch. Creamer wanted to prove to the world that it was possible for ancient mariners to have crossed the largest seas, perhaps even sailed around the world, using only their brains, their experience, their senses, and their courage. In attempting to prove his point, Creamer would push his boat and his crew to the limit--and occasionally beyond.
Travel with Creamer as Globe Star sails around the perilous Horn, across dangerous and tumultuous seas, and into an active war zone. Sail around the world with a man who was taken prisoner by an idea, a man obsessed with proving a point, and who would let neither 40-foot waves nor fractious crewmembers deter him.
Rod Scher received his M.Ed from the University of Oregon. A longtime boating enthusiast, writer, and former English teacher, he is an editor for Smart Computing Magazine and author of The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast (Sheridan House, 2013). He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Sport |
| Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
| Rubrik: | Hobby & Freizeit |
| Thema: | Wassersport& Segeln |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 312 |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9781493065691 |
| ISBN-10: | 1493065696 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Scher, Rod |
| Hersteller: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Maße: | 159 x 237 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Rod Scher |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.01.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,62 kg |
Rod Scher received his M.Ed from the University of Oregon. A longtime boating enthusiast, writer, and former English teacher, he is an editor for Smart Computing Magazine and author of The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast (Sheridan House, 2013). He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Sport |
| Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
| Rubrik: | Hobby & Freizeit |
| Thema: | Wassersport& Segeln |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 312 |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9781493065691 |
| ISBN-10: | 1493065696 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Scher, Rod |
| Hersteller: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Maße: | 159 x 237 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Rod Scher |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.01.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,62 kg |
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