Outward Leg

by Tristan Jones

Overview

After seven years ashore and after having his left leg amputated, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea. He began to piece together Operation Star and found the perfect vessel in a 36-foot trimaran. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out in Outward Leg from San Diego, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail.The book is the exciting story of Tristan's preparation for this major seagoing event and the chronicle of half of it. Tristan sailed down the western coast of Central America through the Panama Canal to a small Colombian town. There he had to fight for survival among hostile natives, drug dealers, and uncooperative port officers. He went on to Venezuela, Aruba, and the Dominican Republic during its 1984 revolution. Finally he reached New York and crossed the Atlantic to return to St. Katharine's Dock in London where he began his seagoing life thirty years before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497630826
Publisher:	Open Road Media
Publication date:	05/27/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	286
Sales rank:	252,958
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Tristan Jones was born at sea aboard his father’s sailing ship off of the cape of Tristan da Cunha. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of fourteen and spent his entire life at sea. He sailed a record four hundred thousand miles during his career with the navy and on a delivery yacht, and has gone on several ambitious journeys on his own small ships. For the last few years of his life, he retired to Phuket, Thailand, aboard his cruising trimaran.

Jones wrote many books about his remarkable life, including Saga of a Wayward Sailor and The Incredible Voyage. He passed away in 1995. In 2003, Ragged Mountain Press published an unauthorized biography, Wayward Sailor: In Search of the Real Tristan Jones.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword,
PART ONE: Conchita,
1. A Tale of Two Cities,
2. The Crunch,
3. The Kept Promise,
4. Outward Leg,
5. The Crucible,
6. Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax ...,
7. ... and Cabbages and Kings,
8. Ready ...,
9. ... Go!,
10. Naked Under the Stars,
11. Mexican Encounters,
12. The Rich Coast,
13. A Nest of Thieves,
14. Old Haunts,
15. Old Friends,
16. The Springboard,
17. The Spanish Main,
18. Out in the Blue,
19. The Chase,
20. The Pirate Coast,
21. Smugglers,
22. Escape,
23. Into the Lion's Den ... and Out,
PART TWO: To London,
24. The Treasure Coast,
25. A Sailor's Heaven,
26. Raves and Caves,
27. Another Bloody Revolt,
28. The Big Apple,
29. Across the Western Ocean,
30. Old Friends, New Faces,
31. Home—and Dry,
Epilogue,
Acknowledgments,
Companies,

Editorial Reviews

After having his leg amputated and spending seven years ashore, Tristan Jones decided to return to sea.

In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out from San Diego in OUTWARD LEG, a 36-foot trimaran, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail.

Sailing Inland & Offshore

Few yachtsmen are unfamiliar with the name Tristan Jones. Having published 16 books on his world voyages, Outward Leg follows the late (sailor) on a voyage from San Diego to London. Jones was an old-style adventurer: a maritime free-thinker with a stainless steel backbone. His quirky sense of humor, honest (and oddly timeless) prose style is spliced with the kind of mad-yet-accurate insight which comes when a man spends too much time alone. Try this one on for size: There are no people on the face of the earth so adept at transforming a dream into a reality as Americans... No people anywhere are so capable of absorbing a dream so thoroughly that it becomes a part of them, and they champion it, devote an amazing amount of energy to it and transform it and, if you are not every careful, destroy it.

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