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Theirs Is the Glory by Chay Blyth is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Theirs Is the Glory about?

from the inside dust cover: "First across the line in the Whitbread Round-the-World Race, Chay Blyth and his crew of paras aboard Great Britain II equalled the record of the famous grain clippers. They had sailed around the world in 144 days, 10 hours, 31 minutes and 29.42 seconds, covering approximately 27,570 miles in four gruelling stages - Portsmouth to Cape Town, to Sydney, to Rio and back to Portsmouth. The race itself was extremely tough: three competitors were drowned, many more injured, and several boats, including the much-favored Eric Tabarly's Pen Duick VI, were severely damaged. Cha Blyth set sail with a crew of twelve and returned with nine. One of their numbered died, another broke an arm. In the Roaring Forties they lost their spinnakers, had their poles broken and also snapped the mizen mast, but found time to send a cheerful wedding telegram to Princess Anne, who had launched Great Britain II. This is a book about one boat's part in an exciting ocean race, about the exhilaration of creaming along in the trade winds, the suspense of braoching on the Southern Ocean, the pride of sailing around the world faster than anyone else. But it is also about the transformatio

Author

Chay Blyth

Publisher

London: Hodder and Stoughton

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780340185186

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Lifestyle