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Pacific Lady The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World s Largest Ocean 1st Edition by Sharon S Adams, Karen Coates, Richard Reeves ISBN 0803218648 9780803218642

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Author(s): Sharon S Adams; Karen Coates; Richard Reeves
ISBN(s): 9780803218642, 0803218648
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.92 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0803218648 
ISBN 13: 9780803218642
Author: Sharon S Adams, Karen Coates, Richard Reeves

It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn’t do such things. None of this deterred Sharon Sites Adams. In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland United States to Hawaii. Four years later, just as Neil Armstrong very publicly stepped onto the moon, the diminutive Adams, alone and unobserved, finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after seventy-four days sailing a thirty-one-foot ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. She was the first woman to do so, setting another world record.

Inspiring and exciting, Adams’s memoir recounts the personal path leading to her historic achievements: a tomboy childhood in the Oregon high desert, an early marriage and painful divorce, and a second marriage that ended when her husband died of cancer. In the wake of his death and almost by accident, Adams discovered sailing. Six weeks after her first sailing lesson she bought a boat, and within eight months she set out to achieve her first world record. Pacific Lady recounts the inward journey that paralleled her sailing feats, as Adams drew on every scrap of courage and navigational skill she could muster to overcome the seasickness, exhaustion, and loneliness that marked her harrowing crossings.

Pacific Lady The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World s Largest Ocean 1st Table of contents:

Part 1: Out to Sea
A Widow Finds the Sea

Fit for the Journey

The First Sail

Storm

Whispers at Sea

A Life to Ponder

A One-Hand Finish​
 

Part 2: Adventure on Water
South Pacific Interlude

Queen Mary to Hollywood​ Part 3: Across the Pacific

Another Sea Sharp

Alone Again on Water

Things Fall Apart

74 Days, 17 Hours, 15 Minutes

A Pink Return​  4: In the Wake of Fame

Glossary

 

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