Track of the "Typhoon"

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Exploration

Authors: William Washburn Nutting In Year : 1925

Book Language: English

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Preface
How "Typhoon" Came to be Designed and Built
"Typhoon" Goes Overboard
Fighting Time Across the North Atlantic
"Typhoon" Reaches Cowes with Thirty-Seven Hours to Spare
Loafing in English Waters
Across the Channel to Brittany
Crossing the Bay of Biscay
"Typhoon" in Sunny Spain
"Typhoon" Picks up the Azores
From Santa Maria to San Miguel
Ten Days at Ponta Delgada
Off on the Last Leg
The Gales in the Gulf Stream
The Knockdown
Land Ho!
Afterthoughts

In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect William Atkin, to design a boat for an Atlantic crossing. The nominal goal of the voyage was to compete in the yacht races off Cowes, England, but Nutting and Atkin also wanted to prove that one could cross a large ocean in what was then considered a very small vessel. The result was "Typhoon," a 45-foot ketch in which Nutting and a few friends completed a three-week crossing of the North Atlantic, followed by some racing and cruising in Europe, and a return to New York via the southern route. This book chronicles the entire adventure. Four years later, Nutting was lost at sea on a voyage in a different vessel. (Summary by Alan Dove)