Publisher's Synopsis
Written with hard-hitting honesty and emotional sensitivity, this is Stephen Ladd's account of his three-year adventure in a 200-pound boat of his own design and construction. The journey begins in the North American Rockies, progresses down the Pacific Coast of Panama and Colombia, crosses South America-including overland hitchhiking of author and boat for several hundred miles-and finally cruises the Caribbean back to Miami, Florida, ultimately sailing 6,500 miles and visiting 19 countries. Capsizes, a robbery at knifepoint, and arrests in Cuba and Haiti are just some of the fascinating adventures in this poetic account of an unprecedented voyage.
