Lowana Comes to Darwin
Lowana Comes to Darwin by Russ Swan is a humorous account of an adventurous sailing journey, published by Xlibris Corporation LLC on February 16, 2017. This 122-page book is written in English and presents a journal-style narrative that explores the motivations behind purchasing a thirty-foot cruising yacht and the challenges faced during a 1,600-nautical-mile voyage across the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Arafura Sea.
Readers will find an engaging portrayal of life at sea, complete with map illustrations and photographs that enhance the storytelling. The book details various experiences, including equipment failures, rough seas, and serene anchorages, providing insights into the realities of sailing. With a focus on humor and adventure, this edition captures the essence of travel and recreation through the lens of an inexperienced sailor’s journey.
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What compels someone with almost no experience of sailing to go and buy an eight-ton, thirty-foot cruising yacht? Especially when it’s located not only in another city but in another state
Why would someone like that risk sailing the boat home on a 1,600-nauticalmile voyage, even if it meant facing the daunting prospect of sailing through hundreds of miles of the largest reef system in the world across the infamous and fickle Gulf of Carpentaria and the open waters of the tropical Arafura Sea?
This book has an often humorous description of events in an easy-flowing journal style. The progress of the voyage can be followed closely with map illustrations and photographs, and the descriptions of day-to-day-to-day events provide a wonderful insight into what life at sea on a cruising yacht might be like. Rich passages describe equipment failures, rough seas, being caught in torrential defiles, airless days, wondrous anchorages, sites of historical interest and scenery . . . and how a man became a sailor.
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