Single handed : the observer/Europe 1 singlehanded transatlantic race / edited by Libby Purves and Trevor Grove ; introduction by Eric Tabarly.
Contributor(s): Purves, Libby [editor.]
| Grove, Trevor [editor.].
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BookPublisher: London : Ebury, [1984]Copyright date: ©1984Description: 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0393032655.Subject(s): Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race | Single-handed sailing | Ocean travel | Heavy weather seamanshipDDC classification: 797.14 Summary: A quarter of a century ago two dedicated sailing men in England had a very small bet on a very great challenge; racing across the Atlantic alone. They were joined by three other adventurers, their very ordinary boats cluttered with extra food, maps, whatever equipment they could find, and maybe a bottle or two of brandy (medicinal purposes only). The winner eventually made it in the then record-breaking time of 40 days, and Francis Chichester became a folk hero all over the world. Now the boats assemble every four years, coming from all over the world, each skipper with his or her own conviction that the Observer/Europe 1 Singlehanded Transatlantic Race is one of the last great individual challenges of modern time Trevor Grove, Libby Purves and a galaxy of sailing writers and competitors describe the casual beginnings in 1960 (when one of the contestants took an extra day in Bermuda to watch the finish of a cricket match!) right up to the race in 1984 when space-age technology and innovation created some of the fastest and sleekest boats in the history of the sport
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 797.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00169824 | |
| General lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 797.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00109553 |
Bibliography: page 204 - Includes index.
A quarter of a century ago two dedicated sailing men in England had a very small bet on a very great challenge; racing across the Atlantic alone. They were joined by three other adventurers, their very ordinary boats cluttered with extra food, maps, whatever equipment they could find, and maybe a bottle or two of brandy (medicinal purposes only). The winner eventually made it in the then record-breaking time of 40 days, and Francis Chichester became a folk hero all over the world. Now the boats assemble every four years, coming from all over the world, each skipper with his or her own conviction that the Observer/Europe 1 Singlehanded Transatlantic Race is one of the last great individual challenges of modern time Trevor Grove, Libby Purves and a galaxy of sailing writers and competitors describe the casual beginnings in 1960 (when one of the contestants took an extra day in Bermuda to watch the finish of a cricket match!) right up to the race in 1984 when space-age technology and innovation created some of the fastest and sleekest boats in the history of the sport