Sea trials : a lone sailor's race toward home
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Sea trials : a lone sailor's race toward home
AUTHOR:
Bourke, Peter J.
ISBN:
9780071821926
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : International Marine/McGraw-Hill Education, c2014.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xii, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
ABSTRACT:
Loss -- Freedom -- A course change -- An inauspicious beginning -- Going solo -- Reasons to quit -- Anger -- Sailing with children -- Obsession -- Zephyrs -- Becalmed -- Better lucky than smart -- Sighting a whale -- Gremlins fight back -- Moments to remember -- Heavy weather -- Origins of a race -- Night sailing -- Watching the radio -- The hat trick -- Ya gotta love it -- A river in the sea -- Planet water -- The risk budget -- Connections -- Losing the Genoa -- Hitting the wall -- Compass awareness -- Back in gear -- Singing at the helm -- Sailing off the calendar -- Friends and family -- Turning the page -- Navigation -- A shearwater's visit -- Best seat in the house -- Coming to America -- Chopin's variations -- A surprise squall -- The fog breaks -- Appendices. Rubicon's sail plan and layout ; 0209 OSTAR : list of competitors, explanation of classes, and tracks.
PERSONAL_SUBJECT:
CONFERENCE_SUBJECT:
SUBJECT:
| Sailboat racing. |
| Sailors -- United States -- Biography. |
| Sailing -- United States. |
| Transatlantic voyages. |
| Single-handed sailing. |
| Bourke, Peter J. |
| Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Loss -- Freedom -- A course change -- An inauspicious beginning -- Going solo -- Reasons to quit -- Anger -- Sailing with children -- Obsession -- Zephyrs -- Becalmed -- Better lucky than smart -- Sighting a whale -- Gremlins fight back -- Moments to remember -- Heavy weather -- Origins of a race -- Night sailing -- Watching the radio -- The hat trick -- Ya gotta love it -- A river in the sea -- Planet water -- The risk budget -- Connections -- Losing the Genoa -- Hitting the wall -- Compass awareness -- Back in gear -- Singing at the helm -- Sailing off the calendar -- Friends and family -- Turning the page -- Navigation -- A shearwater's visit -- Best seat in the house -- Coming to America -- Chopin's variations -- A surprise squall -- The fog breaks -- Appendices. Rubicon's sail plan and layout ; 0209 OSTAR : list of competitors, explanation of classes, and tracks.