"Unique among books of maritime adventure." Times Literary SupplementWhen the 46-foot Tzu Hang sailed from Australia into the vast Southern Ocean in December 1956, her crew of three couldn't know what terror awaited them. Six weeks later and several hundred miles west of Cape Horn, in the dead of night in a violent storm, they were somersaulted by a freak wave and nearly destroyed. When the boat righted itself, it was half full of water and dangerously close to sinking. Its masts had been snapped off and its deck partly ripped away. Miles Smeeton's wife, Beryl, had been flung overboard and injured but miraculously got back aboard. Somehow the crew saved the boat, survived the storm, and four weeks later reached Chile under jury rig.Ten months later, they again attempted Cape Horn and once again were capsized, dismasted, and nearly sunk. This tale of fear and determination electrified the sailing world when first published in 1959. What keeps it as fresh and captivating now as when it was written, however, is not the fury of the storm but Miles Smeeton's spare, eloquent descriptions of life at sea. Once Is Enough rolls with the rhythm of the ocean, and the reader, like the crew of the Tzu Hang, is shaken from a page-turning dream by the storm's sudden violence.

Once is Enough (The Sailor's Classics #6)

Smeeton, Miles

Travel

McGraw=Hill

Because the Horn is There (Cape Horn)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Nautical Publishing Company

The sea was our village

Nautical Pub.Co.

In short this is an accounting of a sailing trip from Japan to Ireland. The story starts with the year the Smeetons spent in Japan, after a long voyage in the Tzu Hang from South Africa. They wintered in the northern island of Hokkaido then sailed for the Aleutians which form a bridge between Asia and America. Eventually, they sail through the Panama Canal, up the east coast of North America and to Ireland. The Misty Islands is clearly a book of the sea and of adventure; it is also a tale of people, places and living creatures in some of the least known parts of the world. This book was written in the cabin of the Tzu Hang, partly during a winter spent in Southern Ireland after the voyage it describes.

The misty islands

Nautical Publishing Co. in ass

When Tzu Hang, a 46-foot ketch, set sail from Melbourne in December 1956 bound for England, Miles and Beryl Smeeton, their Siamese cat, Pwe, and their friend, John Guzzwell, had little concept of the challenges or the terrors that awaited them. At that time very few small sailboats had successfully rounded Cape Horn, and none had sailed as far south as Tzu Hang - just north of the Antarctic iceberg limit.

Once Is Enough

Biographies & Memoirs

Sheridan House Inc

Because the Horn is There

Sports & Outdoors

Grafton Books

The Sea Was Our Village

UNKNO

From the author of the sailing classic, "Because the Horn is There" and "Once is Enough", comes another extraordinary and captivating memoir. "Sunrise to Windward" describes Miles and Beryl Smeeton's journey in Tzu Hang from France to Japan. Amongst the many exotic and fascinating countries visited en route were Malta, The Seychelles, Mozambique and Ceylon. From their safari in East Africa to their encounter with a Bedouin Tribe (who were entranced not by the Smeetons' gift of a packet of tea, but by the page from Life magazine in which it was wrapped), Miles Smeeton presents a delightful array of characters and experiences in his customary vivacious and humorous style. Miles Smeeton was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1906. In 1939, he and his wife Beryl attempted to climb 25,263-foot Tirich Mir, in the Himalaya, with Tenzing Norgay. Although they failed, Beryl achieved renown as one of the first women to climb so high. A career army officer, Miles served with distinction in World War II. In 1951, the Smeetons bought "Tzu Hang" in England and, though they had just learned to sail, sailed her to Canada. They next voyaged to the South Pacific, and Miles later wrote about that adventure in "The Sea Was Our Village". In 1956, Miles and Beryl Smeeton embarked on the voyage described in "Once Is Enough". In 1967, they made a third - and successful - Cape Horn attempt, sailing east to west. The Smeetons later founded the Cochrane Ecological Institute in Alberta, Canada, still run by their daughter.

Sunrise to Windward

The Smeeton's Sailed around the world for twenty years and wrote many books about their adventures. Miles Smeeton always delivers an interesting blend of sailing techniques, cruising grounds, and interesting people he and his wife have met in their travels. This book delivers all that with a love of the ocean that comes through on every page

The Misty Islands (The Mariner's Library)

Once is Enough

Travel Writing

Rupert Hart-Davis

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