Alone through the Roaring Forties (The Sailor's Classics #5) (Sailor's Classics Series)

Below the Cape of Good Hope and south of Australia lie the feared latitudes of the "Roaring Forties " where non-stop westerly gales push huge seas unimpeded around and around the bottom of the world. It was into this watery hell that in 1942 Vito Dumas set sail in a 31-foot ketch outfitted with makeshift gear and provisions and a stoic indifference to the privations he would endure. His 20 000-mile voyage through the vast Southern Ocean set many records including first solo sailor to round Cape Horn and first to sail around the world with only three landfalls.