Aloha Around the World (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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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 Sun beam, 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 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' expedi tion 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.

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