Stone Boat Odyssey eBook Phyllis Nansen Ralph Nansen
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Set against the backdrop of mankind’s epic space odyssey is the tale of a dream that wouldn’t die and a stone boat that eventually sailed 40,000 ocean miles. Readers will witness the thrills, the difficulties, and triumphant ending of an expedition of a lifetime in authors Ralph and Phyllis Nansen’s new book, Stone Boat Odyssey.
Despite false starts, setbacks, and near-tragedy, a boat named Fram set sail on its ocean-going adventure in 1987. This is the story of the remarkable couple who dared to dream of sailing the world’s oceans on the spark of an idea planted while mankind was aiming at the moon, and spent the next three decades completing their odyssey. In this book, readers will follow this amazing journey from the muddy bayous of Louisiana, to the verdant wilderness of British Columbia, and eventually to the palm-graced atolls of the South Pacific as they discover how to sail, how to build a boat, and how to live their dream.
Skillfully woven, very compelling, equally fascinating, Stone Boat Odyssey is an exciting read where everyone can find a fusion of life, love, and the beauty of sailing – and a turning of a wonderful dream into a glorious reality.
Stone Boat Odyssey eBook Phyllis Nansen Ralph Nansen
Ralph and Phyllis Nansen lived busy lives raising three children while Ralph headed a Boeing engineering team that designed critical parts for the lunar lander that put men on the moon for the first time in 1969. And Phyllis was putting together a career as professional opera singer, choir director and a music teacher. Everything in their lives seemed to fit in place.Then the sailing bug bit.
What started as weekend family sailing excursions on Washington State's Puget Sound evolved into an obsession to build by themselves with little experience, a 50-foot, ferro-concrete vessel capable of cruising the oceans of the world. In the face of seemingly unending fits and starts, the project consumed weekends, holidays and summer vacations, mightily testing their will.
They persisted and won, setting sail in 1987, returning to Washingon State in 1994.
Their book about their incredible 26,619 nautical-mile journey from Seattle is presented freshly free of artifice. In so doing it offers encouragement for readers who also have incredible dreams they yearn to pursue. The Nansens' hair-raising accounts of sailing alone in the middle of an ocean during heavy seas swept by hurricane gales are well written and filled with tension. Their vignettes about islanders and others yachtsmen they met along the way are dotted like gems throughout the book. The book can be easily be read within a weekend, most likely at the seashore facing out to sea.
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Stone Boat Odyssey eBook Phyllis Nansen Ralph Nansen Reviews
This book captured my attention from the very first page. To read of two people who have a shared dream of a grand adventure on the open ocean and persist, despite the many setbacks, to make their dream a reality almost seems like fiction. But it isn't a fairy tale, it's a real life adventure that many of us only dream about but never take action upon. Ralph and Phyllis took action and lived their dream. It was terrifying to read about their times in rough seas, the perilous entries into reef bound harbors and the agony of parts breaking and sails being shredded in hurricane force winds. That they lived to share their story with us is a miracle.
An enjoyable read and hard to put down even late at night when I could barely keep my eyes open!
What an amazing adventure. Ralph and Phyllis take you from a dream to the reality of building and living on a sail boat and then sailing the world. This romance to sail and live freely is made into a reality in "Stone Boat Odyssey" as well as the heart throbbing fear of the seas. I was taken on a trip that I could only dream about and found myself sitting relaxing on the Stone Boat when the seas were so calm that the sails would only flap and then a day later feeling frighten for my life when the seas showed they were in control. The stories of their boat friends and island friends were very heart warming and the stories of their cat will make you laugh out loud. Page after page I found my self feel every emotion I have ever experienced, I laughed, cried, smiled, frowned and felt extreme fear all in reading this amazing, well written, true adventures story.
I highly recommend this book to everyone.
Life on a concrete boat! I watched this being made in the Nansen's back yard in Federal Way.
A great sailing story. I was around when ferro cement was the rage in inexpensive boat building. Some were successes and others were not. Nice to read a story of a succes. Great read.
This is a very good read for anyone who has done any boating or dreamt about it. A very enjoyable read. It is about one couple's dream of sailing around the world and their journey from learning to sail on a small boat to building their own ferrous-cement boat and everyting in between. There is just enough boat building detail to be interesting, but not too much. The main focus is the adventure of sailing on the East Coast, Puget Sound on the West Coast and up into Canada. Then a world voyage with a cat and two thoroughtly engaging middle-aged people who have delightful adventures wherever they go. The writing style is not professional and could flow a bit more smoothly, but the story is so engaging this is easy to overlook.
Ralph and Phyllis Nansen lived busy lives raising three children while Ralph headed a Boeing engineering team that designed critical parts for the lunar lander that put men on the moon for the first time in 1969. And Phyllis was putting together a career as professional opera singer, choir director and a music teacher. Everything in their lives seemed to fit in place.
Then the sailing bug bit.
What started as weekend family sailing excursions on Washington State's Puget Sound evolved into an obsession to build by themselves with little experience, a 50-foot, ferro-concrete vessel capable of cruising the oceans of the world. In the face of seemingly unending fits and starts, the project consumed weekends, holidays and summer vacations, mightily testing their will.
They persisted and won, setting sail in 1987, returning to Washingon State in 1994.
Their book about their incredible 26,619 nautical-mile journey from Seattle is presented freshly free of artifice. In so doing it offers encouragement for readers who also have incredible dreams they yearn to pursue. The Nansens' hair-raising accounts of sailing alone in the middle of an ocean during heavy seas swept by hurricane gales are well written and filled with tension. Their vignettes about islanders and others yachtsmen they met along the way are dotted like gems throughout the book. The book can be easily be read within a weekend, most likely at the seashore facing out to sea.
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