Outward Leg
Description
After seven years ashore and after having his left leg amputated, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea. He began to piece together Operation Star and found the perfect vessel in a 36-foot trimaran. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out in Outward Leg from San Diego, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail.The book is the exciting story of Tristan's preparation for this major seagoing event and the chronicle of half of it. Tristan sailed down the western coast of Central America through the Panama Canal to a small Colombian town. There he had to fight for survival among hostile natives, drug dealers, and uncooperative port officers. He went on to Venezuela, Aruba, and the Dominican Republic during its 1984 revolution. Finally he reached New York and crossed the Atlantic to return to St. Katharine's Dock in London where he began his seagoing life thirty years before.
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Person
Jones wrote many books about his remarkable life, including Saga of a Wayward Sailor and The Incredible Voyage. He passed away in 1995. In 2003, Ragged Mountain Press published an unauthorized biography, Wayward Sailor: In Search of the Real Tristan Jones.
Content
- Cover
- Foreword
- PART ONE: Conchita
- 1. A Tale of Two Cities
- 2. The Crunch
- 3. The Kept Promise
- 4. Outward Leg
- 5. The Crucible
- 6. Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax . . .
- 7. . . . and Cabbages and Kings
- 8. Ready . . .
- 9. . . . Go!
- 10. Naked Under the Stars
- 11. Mexican Encounters
- 12. The Rich Coast
- 13. A Nest of Thieves
- 14. Old Haunts
- 15. Old Friends
- 16. The Springboard
- 17. The Spanish Main
- 18. Out in the Blue
- 19. The Chase
- 20. The Pirate Coast
- 21. Smugglers
- 22. Escape
- 23. Into the Lion's Den . . . and Out
- PART TWO: To London
- 24. The Treasure Coast
- 25. A Sailor's Heaven
- 26. Raves and Caves
- 27. Another Bloody Revolt
- 28. The Big Apple
- 29. Across the Western Ocean
- 30. Old Friends, New Faces
- 31. Home-and Dry
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Companies
- Copyright
