by Captain Joshua Slocum
“The anchor was let go to club her. It wouldn’t hold in the treacherous sands; so she dragged and stranded broadside, where open to the sea, a strong swell came in that raked her fore and aft, for three days, the waves dashing over her groaning hull the while till at last her back was broke and—she lay undone.”
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A tall ship is trapped on a sandbar in 1885, broadsided by heavy seas and doomed to destruction and break up on a lonely Brazilian beach. This just the beginning of an incredible sea adventure by a North American Sea Captain, his wife and two sons.
This recording includes two additional true adventures written by Captain Slocum: “Rescue of some Gilbert Islanders” and “The Voyage of the ‘Destroyer’ From New York to Brazil.
These three adventures were experienced and written by Captain Slocum before he wrote the most famous sailing adventure ever written, “Sailing Alone Around the World.”