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After having his left leg
amputated and spending seven years ashore, Tristan Jones decided to return
to the sea. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske,
set out from San Diego in OUTWARD LEG, a 36-ft trimaran, intending to
circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail.
OUTWARD LEG chronicles the preparation for launch and the first
part of that inspiring journey. Tristan sailed down the western coast of
Central America through the Panama Canal to a small Colombian town. There
he fought for survival against hostile natives, drug dealers and
uncooperative port officers. He sailed on to Venezuela, Aruba and the
Dominican Republic during its 1984 revolution, then up the coast of North
America to New York. After crossing the Atlantic for the twentieth time in
his life, he finally returned to St. Katharine's Dock in London where he
had begun his seagoing adventures thirty years before.
With wry humor and inimitable style, Tristan tells his story, "a
story of how I met with disaster in the midst of triumph, and how I
struggled to overcome it. It is the tale of how I returned to sea despite
almost unimaginable obstacles placed in my way by the fates. It is the
account of how I turned a desperate situation into an opportunity to serve
others. It is also the tale of how I incidentally sailed 14,000 miles on
my way around the world."
"A gripping account by a born writer of a trimaran voyage from
California through Panama, along the pirate- and smuggler-infested coast
of Colombia, and across the Atlantic to Britain. Inspired stuff, and an
inspiring man." Motor Boat & Yachting
"Easily the best, and certainly the most individualistic, writer in
this field." The Seafarer
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