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Like old Captain Joshua Slocum almost 40 years before him, like salty Harry Pidgeon, who followed Herman Melville's Typee course, like seagoing Soldier-Tennist Alain Gerbault-cockle-shell Magellans all-Dwight Long had set his sails to go round the world. He had $200 cash, a guarantee of $25 a month for dispatches to the Seattle Star, and a companion who had studied spherical trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator. At Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii...
Calvin Coolidge asking for a message, explaining his reply would cost nothing. His reply (full text): "Greetings." Alain Gerbault, oldtime French tennis star who three years ago completed a solitary trip around the world in a 35-foot sailboat, left Marseilles alone in his new sailboat Alain Gerbault. Friends said he was bound for Polynesia. The city of Nizhni-Novgorod, chief navigation centre on the Volga River. famed for its annual fair, was renamed Maxim Gorki in honor of "Soviet Russia's foremost man of letters." whose birthplace it is. Albert Whiting Fox. Washington attorney, sued Evalyn Walsh McLean...
...night, about 120 miles out of Manhattan, he noticed the red port light was out, took it below to refill it. While he was down in the cabin a steamer passed so close to the Firecrest it sheared away the bowsprit, left a gaping hole. By the time Gerbault reached Bermuda (16 days out of Manhattan), the Firecrest had to be completely overhauled. From Bermuda, Gerbault headed through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands. One day after he left Galapagos, a bonito, 35 lbs., tried to jump over the boat, stunned itself against the mainsail, made...
...sailed day & night; in bad weather sat up, in good weather set his course, lashed the wheel, turned in. At whatever islands he touched he would make repairs, revictual, play tennis or football if he could. He kept fit. The Firecrest had no auxiliary engine, but Gerbault almost never accepted a tow in or out of harbor, liking the excitement of closely calculated navigation under sail. From the South Seas he went through Torres Strait across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, north to St. Helena, to the Cape Verde Islands (where he stayed ten months...
...Gerbault plans another trip. His new boat, also to be called Firecrest, is now abuilding, should be ready in September. In October, Gerbault plans to hoist sail, head for the South Seas...