Description
When Adrian Hayter set out single-handed from Lymington, England on his thirty-two-foot Albert Strange-designed yawl Sheila II, local betting was seven to one that he would get no further than the English Channel. His destination was New Zealand, and the odds were definitely against him. In 1949 perhaps only eight people had sailed solo around the world, and single-handed long-distance sailing voyages were rare.
As a sailor, Adrian recounts his foray into celestial navigation, a back-street appendix operation in India, armed escort by Indonesian authorities at sea, and eating barnacles off the hull to avoid starvation.
As a writer, (and ex-soldier), he was trying to make sense of the humanitarian disasters of the Second World War and Communist Uprising that brought him to this voyage.
Sheila in the Wind is more than a report of a 13,000-mile adventure; it’s a story of the human spirit.
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