Maiden Voyage

by Tania Aebi | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0345368762 Global Overview for this book
Registered by katopua of Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein Germany on 12/4/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by katopua from Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein Germany on Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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Tania Aebi was an eighteen-year-old dropout, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere - until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she choose the sailboat, she'd have to sail around the world - alone.
She chose the boat, and for the next two and a half years and 27,000 miles, it was her home. With only her cat as companion, she discovered the wondrous beauties of the Great Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of Red Sea. She suffered through a terrifying collision with a tanker in the Mediterranean and a lightning storm off the coast of Gibraltar. And, ultimately, what began as the sheer desire for adventure turned into a spiritual quest as Tania came to terms with her troubled family life, fell in love for the first time and - most of all - confronted her own needs, desires, dreams, and goals ...

I read this book in a German translation a long time ago as I was 18-y-o myself and sailing for only a short time. At this time I found it very fascinating, to read about someone of the same age and to ask myself, if I would have wanted to make the same experience.
I like to read about single-handed sailing. But I'm not able to make up my mind, if it's something which could be called good. At one hand I fear, I might sometimes get into a crazy mood and to sail out alone too, but on the other hand I don't like the thought of other ships meeting such an unmanned boat with a sleeping single-handed sailor ...

Journal Entry 2 by katopua at Segler- und Seefahrer-Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Friday, August 22, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (8/22/2008 UTC) at Segler- und Seefahrer-Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases

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Und ab in die Segler- und Seefahrer-Box ... der Countdown für den Stapellauf ist gekommen!

Journal Entry 3 by katopua at Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein Germany on Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Ist mit dem zweiten Teil der Segler- und Seefahrer-Box wieder heimgekehrt.

Just in time to be put into the book donation box for the Philippines.

Released 13 yrs ago (6/15/2010 UTC) at katopuas book project in CERV, -- Not a city, Geographical features, etc. -- Philippines

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Went into the Balikbayan Box No. 1

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