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Storm Passage: Alone Around Cape Horn
Published in Hardcover by Times Books (1977)
Author: Webb Chiles
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Self Reliance
"Storm Passage",A great sea story,one of which I read of many years ago,one I'd like to read again.Its a narrative about Survival and resourcfullness at sea. An important work about single handed sailing.

How to fix a boat while sailing around the world
This book gave me confidance in the Ericson 37, which my family owns and often sail in Lake Huron. After learning about some of Webb's adventures at sea my father and I took much of his advice and improved our boat so we would not experience any of the problems he delt with in his circumnavigation. It is true that with a lifetime of sailing in Michigan Waters we would not inflict as much wear and tear on our boat as he did his but it was nice to know what the old girl could take.

The book was a story about one man and his ability to take a racing sail boat and sail it around the world. The problem is that this boat was not a blue water cruiser. Many of the problems he encountered along the way were due to the fact that the boat was not designed for this type of abuse. In a normal sail on Sunday afternoon you might sail 20 miles around a protected lake. Webb sailed his Ericson 37 8,000 miles around the Cape. All of which was beating to weather. I admire his determination and feel connected to his adventure due to the years spent on her sister ship.

Book could be renamed Webb's Excellent Adventure and boat repair.


The Open Boat-Across the Pacific
Published in Hardcover by W.W. Norton & Company (1982)
Author: Webb Chiles
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A beautiful book to share in the experience of immigration
A beautiful collection of poetry and prose. Oriental immigrants and their children share a yearning for an identity. Tales from the quiet race, as they share their stories of a motherland and of the conflicts of alienation as foreigners on either side of the hemisphere, always stradling two different worlds.


The Ocean Waits/#08957
Published in Hardcover by Bookthrift Co (1984)
Author: Webb Chiles
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Blue water sailing in an "open" boat.
An auto biographical story about Sailing an 18 foot open sailboat,from Australia to the Red Sea,a real Capital "A" Adventure.


Single Wave
Published in Mass Market Paperback by I Books (2002)
Author: Webb Chiles
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