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Odyssey of a Texas Sailor: The true story of a country boy's dream to sail solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Drew Paige, John Clark
ASIN: B07L8H1SLT
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 159

An adventurous soulWhen Dean Meeks decided he wanted to learn to fly an airplane, he took some lessons and bought himself a small Cessna – which he sometimes landed on a two-lane asphalt country road near his house and parked in the front yard.When the idea of learning to sail a boat occurred to the lifelong central Texas dairy farmer, he bought a used 21-foot sloop from an ad in the newspaper and taught himself to cruise around a nearby lake. After his youngest daughter grew up and was stationed in England with the U.S. Air Force, Meeks began to dream a much bigger dream.Daydream to reality“Why couldn’t I – a self-taught, proven sailor of fresh water lakes – purchase a craft in England, sail it back to Houston, and make a handsome profit on its resale at that oil-rich port?” Meeks wrote in his journal.And that’s exactly what he did. With no experience aboard an ocean-going vessel of ...
Amazon Rating:
5 stars from 19 ratings