Pacific Lady

The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World's Largest Ocean

Sharon Sites Adams, Karen Coates (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2008
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-1138-4 (ISBN)

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In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland US to Hawaii. Four years later she finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after seventy-four days sailing a thirty-one-foot ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. This memoir recounts the inward journey that paralleled her sailing feats.

It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn’t do such things. None of this deterred Sharon Sites Adams. In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland United States to Hawaii. Four years later, just as Neil Armstrong very publicly stepped onto the moon, the diminutive Adams, alone and unobserved, finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after seventy-four days sailing a thirty-one-foot ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. She was the first woman to do so, setting another world record.
Inspiring and exciting, Adams’s memoir recounts the personal path leading to her historic achievements: a tomboy childhood in the Oregon high desert, an early marriage and painful divorce, and a second marriage that ended when her husband died of cancer. In the wake of his death and almost by accident, Adams discovered sailing. Six weeks after her first sailing lesson she bought a boat, and within eight months she set out to achieve her first world record. Pacific Lady recounts the inward journey that paralleled her sailing feats, as Adams drew on every scrap of courage and navigational skill she could muster to overcome the seasickness, exhaustion, and loneliness that marked her harrowing crossings.

Sharon Sites Adams, Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in 1969, is a popular speaker, making appearances and telling her story before various organizations and gatherings. Karen J. Coates is a journalist, a correspondent for Gourmet magazine, and a contributor to numerous publications, including Archaeology, the Christian Science Monitor, and Fodor’s Travel Guides. She is the author of Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Alone

Part 1. Out to Sea

1. A Widow Finds the Sea

2. Fit for the Journey

3. The First Sail

4. Storm

5. Whispers at Sea

6. A Life to Ponder

7. A One-Hand Finish

Part 2. Adventure on Water

8. South Pacific Interlude

9. Queen Mary to Hollywood

Part 3. Across the Pacific

10. Another Sea Sharp

11. Alone Again on Water

12. Things Fall Apart

13. 74 Days, 17 Hours, 15 Minutes

14. A Pink Return

Part 4. In the Wake of Fame

15. Sailing On

Glossary

Reihe/Serie	Outdoor Lives
Vorwort	Randall Reeves
Zusatzinfo	24 photographs, 4 figures, map
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
ISBN-10	0-8032-1138-4 / 0803211384
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-1138-4 / 9780803211384
Zustand	Neuware