Sailing to the Far Horizon: The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship by Pamela Sisman Bitterman
English | December 6th, 2012 | ASIN: B00AKSZ61A, ISBN: 0299201902, 0299201945 | 368 Pages | EPUB | 3.41 MB
The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe.