Descriptif: Joshua Slocum fut le premier à circumnaviguer le globe en solitaire à bord d'un vieux bateau de pêche, la 'Spray'. Partant du port de Boston en avril 1895, il se dirigea vers les Açores, Gibraltar, Buenos Aires, le détroit de Magellan, les Samoa et l'Australie. À son retour à Boston, il a parcouru 46'000 miles en un peu plus de trois ans. En 1909, il disparut alors qu'il naviguait dans les eaux de l'Amérique du Sud
Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Slocum J., Sailing Alone around the world, Echo Library, 2006.
I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter.
The twelve o'clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. A short board was made up the harbor on the port tack, then coming about she stood to seaward, with her boom well off to port, and swung past the ferries with lively heels. A photographer on the outer pier of East Boston got a picture of her as she swept by, her flag at the peak throwing her folds clear. A thrilling pulse beat high in me. My step was light on deck in the crisp air. I felt there could be no turning back, and that I was engaging in an adventure the meaning of which I thoroughly understood.
Slocum J., Sailing Alone around the world, Echo Library, 2006.
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