Sublime

The wind stood fair until they were far below Capricorn; day after day she logged her two hundred miles; pure, urgent sailing, all hands getting the last ounce out of her – the beautiful way of naval life that half-pay officers in their dim lodgings remember as their natural existence.

Add a battery charger, Shop-Vac and hand tools and you are off to a good start. Buy any specialty tools as you need them and add the cost to the project’s total expenses.

Now they have beaten me, he thought. I am too old to club sharks to death. But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and the tiller.

The most reasonable theory suggests that, about 45,000 years ago, the Sapiens living in the Indonesian archipelago (a group of islands separated from Asia and from each other by only narrow straits) developed the first seafaring societies. They learned how to build and manoeuvre ocean-going vessels and became long-distance fishermen, traders and ex

a man who lived as if the wild places of the hemisphere were his for the taking.

at daylight we saw the island of Juan Fernandez,

Et voilà que soudain ce petit capitaine inconnu, Magellan, se lève et déclare avec une assurance absolue : « Il existe un passage conduisant de l’océan Atlantique à l’océan Indien. Je le connais, je sais l’endroit exact où il se trouve. Donnez-moi une flotte et je vous le montrerai et je ferai le tour de la terre en allant de l’est à l’ouest. »