![]() We sailed to Cape Verde (got machine-gunned by the police in Russian-made motorcycles with sidecars off Brava) and then, as the author did, although we were sailing different passages, got stuck in the doldrums. We set off from Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, as did the author, having sailed there from the UK. ![]() The rest of this has only a very small relationship to the book! I've sailed the Atlantic too. It's a fantastic book if you are a sailor or like real-life adventure stories or even just want a good read that isn't like any other book. There is nothing I can write further that wouldn't be a spoiler. He had studied books on surviving at sea, he'd bought all the correct gear, practised the manoeuvres necessary to get off a sinking boat as fast as possible and within hours of setting off from the Canaries, his boat sank. ![]() He was a delivery skipper sailing boats from one place to another and he very much wanted to do a single-handed across the Atlantic. 10 Stars If anyone was going to get shipwrecked and survive alone on the Atlantic it was Steve Callahan. ![]()
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