Cap Horn à la voile

This book recounts the extraordinary 126-day, 14,216-mile non-stop sailing journey around Cape Horn, a feat that was, at the time, the longest and greatest ever achieved by a yacht. Bernard Moitessier, with his wife Françoise, navigated their 13-ton boat, Joshua, through the treacherous waters of the high latitudes, a route notorious for claiming many large commercial sailing vessels. Moitessier's sensitive and intelligent writing immerses readers in the exhilarating navigation, including six days of gales where Joshua, stripped of sails, fled 600 miles towards the 'Hard Cape.