Sailing Alone Around the World

“Come to Fairhaven and I’ll give you a ship,” an old whaling captain tells Joshua Slocum. The gift turns out to be an ancient sloop, propped up in a field—and Slocum means to take her to sea.

In the winter of 1892, with work scarce for an experienced shipmaster, Slocum finds himself ashore in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, weighing whether to return to command or turn to the shipyard. The sea has never loosened its hold on him, and the neglected Spray gives him a chance to build the stout little vessel he has long imagined. As neighbors wonder whether the project can possibly pay, he sets to work with axe, adz and hard-won knowledge, shaping a boat for a voyage few would dare make alone. Can this field-bound sloop be made ready for the open ocean?

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