Sailing to the Far Horizon
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Sailing to the Far Horizon

The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sailing to the Far Horizon

The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship

About this book

The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand's North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos'un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Chronology
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Joining the Sofia for Her Second Circumnavigation: Floating in Boston
  7. 2. Into the Teeth of Hurricane Kendra: My Maiden Voyage
  8. 3. Too Much Rum, Too Many Steel Drums: Too Long a Stay in the Windward Islands
  9. 4. Old World, Third World, Unspoiled World: The Dutch Antilles, Venezuela, the San Blas Archipelago
  10. 5. Great Escapes: The Trip Overland through Mexico and Central America
  11. 6. “¿Dónde Está American Embassy?”: What the Travel Brochures Don’t Tell You: Costa Rica, Panama, and the Galapagos
  12. 7. The World’s Longest Expanse of Uninterrupted Ocean: Crossing the South Pacific to the Marquesas
  13. 8. The Most Beautiful Islands in the World: The Societies
  14. 9. Too Many Have Come before Us: The Cook Islands, the Samoas, and the Kingdom of Tonga
  15. 10. Deep in the Doldrums: Crossing the Horse Latitudes to New Zealand
  16. 11. Roll On, Deep and Dark Blue Ocean: The Mutiny and the Sofia’s Final Passage
  17. 12. Off the North Cape: The Storm
  18. 13. Sinking: The Life Rafts
  19. 14. Coming Home
  20. Epilogue