Ebook: The Impossible Voyage

'The most astounding passage under sail that has ever been made by one man alone.'The TimesChay Blyth sailed round the world, single- handed against the wind - the longest windward sail in history - in a small boat, 59 feet long, made of British steel. The skills and expertise of a century of shipbuilding were concentrated into British Steel, which in 30,000 miles of almost continuous up-hill sailing, encountered a more severe battering than most other large yachts en¬ counter in ten years.The courage and determination concentrated into lone sailor Chay Blyth makes The Impossible Voyage compulsive reading. There were good days, fine and clear. And days of near-disaster, when he fought the full force of the Westerlies in the Roaring Forties; when his self-steering gear broke beyond repair; his running booms were shattered; and he gashed his forehead deeply when thrown by enormous seas. The worst storm on the voyage, 1,500 miles from Capetown, forced him well off course.