“It’ll crawl!” — Thomas Fogarty’s illustration from Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World. Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail alone around the world on Spray.Why they thought it would crawl
Hugo Vihlen’s Atlantic crossing routes: April Fool (1968, 6-foot boat, 85 days) and Father’s Day (1993, 5’4″ boat, 105 days). Map from Hugo’s book, The Stormy Voyage of Father’s Day.
The Spray. From a photograph taken in Australian waters. From Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum, The Century Co., New York, 1901More on the spray
