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Thursday, April 24, 2014
JOSHUA SLOCUM
"I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed anchor set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. The twelve o'clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. A short board was made up the harbor on the port tack, then coming about she stood to seaward, with her boom well off to port, and swung past the ferries with lively heels. A photographer on the outer pier of East Boston got a picture of her as she swept by, her flag at the peak throwing her folds clear. A thrilling pulse beat high in me. My step was light on deck in the crisp air. I felt there could be no turning back, and that I was engaging in an adventure the meaning of which I thoroughly understood." - Sailing Alone Around the World
Great post, Mike! Garrison Keillor mentioned Sailing Alone Around the World on The Writer's Almanac Thursday.
Of many favorite passages, my favorite is when Slocum admonishes Spray for getting her rigging tangled in overhanging Fir trees. He say's "What are you trying to do, climb a tree?"
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"I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed anchor set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. The twelve o'clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. A short board was made up the harbor on the port tack, then coming about she stood to seaward, with her boom well off to port, and swung past the ferries with lively heels. A photographer on the outer pier of East Boston got a picture of her as she swept by, her flag at the peak throwing her folds clear. A thrilling pulse beat high in me. My step was light on deck in the crisp air. I felt there could be no turning back, and that I was engaging in an adventure the meaning of which I thoroughly understood." - Sailing Alone Around the World 
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Great post, Mike! Garrison Keillor mentioned Sailing Alone Around the World on The Writer's Almanac Thursday.
Of many favorite passages, my favorite is when Slocum admonishes Spray for getting her rigging tangled in overhanging Fir trees. He say's "What are you trying to do, climb a tree?"
Bill:
I can't say I ever talked to the boat but, I do talk to myself sometimes when I have been away from "civilization" while cruising.
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