Så här löd första reklambroschyren jag fick tag i. Jag har den kvar fortfarande.

The following part is from the first leaflet I laid my hands on, I do still have it! :-)
I will not tire you by translating it because you have heard it all before, many times.
It begins with the company history as the first producer of fibre glass boats in Sweden and for the Swedish Royal Navy,
then it addresses you as the most skilful and discerning seaman, and finally raises the Havsfidra to the heavenly skies.
Necessary words in an ad, but nothing new under the sun!

Havsfidra 20

   
Leaflets from around 1968 and 1973.

Modern Midgethavskryssare

 i glasfiberarmerad plast

Redan 1949 byggde Fisksätra Varv sin första glasfiberbåt och vår långa erfarenhet är alltså en garanti för att Ni får en båt av allra högsta klass. Under årens lopp har vi byggt tusentals trä och plastbåtar i storlekar från jollar till 300 tons minsvepare. En stor del av vår produktion har gått till statliga myndigheter — marinen, armén, tullverket, sjöfartsstyrelsen. Glasfiberarmerad plast anser vi stå i absolut särklass både när det gäller utformning, hållfasthet och låga underhållskostnader. Vi bygger upp laminatet i samtliga våra båtar enligt Svenska marinens normer, vilket betyder handupplagt speciallaminat med en hållfasthet som uppfyller de absolut strängaste krav.

Vackra att se på ...

De är ännu bättre inombords, men det är inte hela sanningen om en Fisksätrabåt. Vi tror, att Ni kommer att hålla med om att Fisksätra erbjuder Er några av de bästa båtarna i Europa — eller hela världen för den delen. Orsaken är att de konstruerats och byggts av kvalificerat varvsfolk för den kategori erfaret och verkligt kunnigt sjöfolk Ni tillhör eller kommer att tillhöra.

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What is Fidra?

Namnet Fidra.

Var kommer det ifrån?

The name Fidra?

Fidra is a small uninhabited island located close to land on the southern shore in the mouth of Firth of Forth outside Edinburgh in Scotland.
Apart from have given its name to our boat, Robert Louis Stevenson is supposed to have used the shape of the island when creating The Treasure Island. It's not so strange if you know that his father and uncle actually built the 17-meter tall lighthouse on the northern part of the island!
The lighthouse was inaugurated in 1885 and automated in 1970. The last lighthousekeeper left in 1971.

Fidra fyr är placerad på norra delen av ön som idag även är fågelskyddsområde och för övrigt helt obebodd.

Link to Fidra for Google Earth

Link to Fidra for Google Maps

Ön Fidras namn har i sin tur troligtvis sitt ursprung i fornnordiskans "fiaðr" fjäder, och förmodligen syftande på överflödet av fågelfjädrar på ön.

The island Fidra has in its turn probably got its name from the old norse word "fiaðr", meaning feather. Not a strange choice when seeing the abundance of bird feathers on the island of today that has become a bird sanctuary together with Bass Rock, which is considered one of the Twelve Wildlife Wonders of the World.
Do enjoy the views through the six live birdcams from the North Berwick Sea Bird Centre:

Fidra

Bilden ovan är hämtad från Wikipedia och copyright innehas av Richard Webb. 

Häng med ut till Fidra genom denna webbkamera med flera olika vyer.

Fidra was also the name of the first Swedish circumnavigating yacht in 1920-22.
Cariad was her first name, and she has got it back again and is taken care of in Japan today!
View her own website here!
I'm not quite sure any more...
View this page!

Fidra var även namnet på den första svenska jakten som seglade jorden runt 1920-22.

The Swedish Royal Navy leased M/S Fidra during WW2 as an "Assisting Cruiser"!?

Vykort från Lennart Falleth samling.

Fakta om Fartyg.se

Svenska flottan hyrde in lastmotorfartyget M/S Fidra under beteckningen hjälpkryssaren 10 under andra världskriget. Återlämnad till sin ägare Stockholms Rederi AB Svea efter kriget och har efter flera ägarbyten hamnat i Libanon under sjuttiotalet.

The sign Φ

Fi or FI has several meanings:

Tecknet Φ

Fi eller FI har flera betydelser:

Let's skip it!

We know what it above all stands for!

Fi är en militär förkortning för "fiende", vid svenska militärövningar vanligtvis av hypotetisk natur. Begreppet används i den klassiska frasen den lede fi, "den onda fienden". 
Fi är en vetenskaplig förkortning för ämnet filosofi. 
Fi är en förkortning för Feministiskt initiativ. 
Fi är en förkortning för Finansinspektionen 
Fi är IATA-koden för Icelandair 
Fi är landskoden (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) för Finland 
fi är språkkoden (ISO 639-1) för Finland 

Φ eller φ används också som beteckning på en rad olika saker:

φ, inom geodesi avstånd från ekvatorn. Anges i N/S 0-90˚, se även meridian.

Inom matematisk analys en obekant eller godtycklig vinkel i allmänhet, och framför allt inom vågrörelseläran beteckning för fasförskjutning. 

Φ, inom statistik beteckning för bias. 
φ, beteckning för konstanten gyllene snittet. 
φ betecknar också en premiss i argumentationsanalys.

Nä, Fi fan för alla oväsentliga bortförklaringar.

Vi vet ju alla vad det framför allt annat står för!

Fidra!

Curette is originally a surgical instrument, with an oval shape, almost like a spoon. It's used for scraping tissue samples. Later models developed for grooming of nails and ears.

I have recently found out that Curette also is a village, north of the Loire Valley in France. Ten miles northnorthwest of Nantes.

The Donkey driven carts in Cairo and other cities in Egypt are sometimes refferred to as a Curette. I Guess it's the spoon shape again!

Och namnet Curette?

Ursprungligen ett kirurgiskt verktyg. Ovalt, skedformat, för skrapning och kanske vävnadsprovtagning. Senare utvecklat med varianter för öron och nagelvård.

Tidigare ägaren och namngivaren till Curette var antingen gynekolog eller stor humorist!

 Eftersom jag inte riktigt ser det roliga eller kopplingen mellan verktyg och båt, tippar jag att han var det senare!

Kan ni tro det här:
Stefan Andersson från Smögen (har tidigare varit ägare till Fidra nr 1) skrev till mig strax efter nyår 2007 och berättade att han själv som ägare till Curette III, en Fingal med nr 101, undrat över namnets uppkomst.
Detta påminde ju mig om att Curette faktiskt hade en romersk IV på livbojen men jag ignorerade detta eftersom det saknade betydelse för mig när jag limmade dit mässingsbokstäverna på skrovet.
Jag påmindes också om att säljaren till mig nämnde att föregående ägare var ett par som bytte från en större båt till en mindre lätthanterligare Fidra.
Detta informationsutbytet har givit oss båda svar, och samtidigt väckt nya frågor till liv, vilka var t ex Curette och Curette II?

Hur som helst,  jag vet nu både namn och yrke på den som namngav Curette.
Och det visar sig att han var både
GYNEKOLOG OCH HUMORIST!

Är inte detta ganska fantastiskt?

Curette's first owner, or, perhaps the second, and probably the person that gave her the name, was either gynecologist or humorist. Since I don't really see the connection between the tool and the boat, I'm leaning towards the latter!
;-)

Can you believe this:
Stefan Andersson from Smögen on the Swedish west coast (previosly owner of Fidra number 1) e-mailed me on one of the first days in 2007, telling me that he had been wondering about the name of his own Curette III, a Fingal number 101. Also a Fisksätra built boat, actually the wharf's first sailboat. This instantly reminded me that my Curette actually had a Roman IV on the life bouy when I got her. But since this wasn't significant for me at the time I ignored it when glueing the brass letters on the hull. It also reminded me that my seller told me that the previous owner was a couple that got the Fidra after a bigger boat because of easier handling and/or maintenance.
This information exchange has given both of us answers, and also produced new questions, who was Curette and Curette II for instance?

However, Now I know both name and profession of the person that gave Curette her name, and it shows that he was both
GYNECOLOGIST AND HUMORIST!

Isn't this rather fantastic?

Curette får behålla sitt namn, inte enbart på grund av min skrockfullhet om namnbyte på en båt, utan för att jag faktiskt tycker det är riktigt vackert. Lyssna!

Curette!

Curette will keep her name, not only because of my superstitious thoughts about changing a boats name, but, I actually thinks it is a beautiful name. Listen!

Curette!

Try it with a French accent! ;-)

Curette!

Bubonic Plague
or
Osmosis
 

Vadå böldpest?

Vad beror det på då?

Kanske förvaringen av glasfiberväven i kalla fuktiga lokaler? Snusgubbar? Polyestern? Tillverkningsprocessen?

 Vem vet, inte du
vem vet. inte jag
vi vet ingenting nu
vi vet inget idag
 :-)

Titta och njut av Lisa Ekdahls
sång lite längre ner på sidan.

Den internationala färgtillverkarens försvar löd nästan ordagrant som följer:

Ja men vår färg måste vara bra, vi håller ju på att lansera den på den amerikanska marknaden!

Efter det uttalandet såg jag rött, och gav upp. Mot ren och skär dumhet finns ingen bot! Inte en enda produkt av detta fabrikat kommer över min tröskel mer i detta liv. Detta drabbar sorgligt nog även de av denna fabrikant uppköpta konkurrenternas produkter även om de är bra. Synd, för VC17 var bra! 

Allt detta hände i slutet på åttiotalet eller början på nittiotalet. Jag är inte säker, har ju försökt förtränga eländet. Men värken jag fick i armbågen av det sönderslitna ligamentet när jag försökte återställa efter den misslyckade behandlingen med "den där färgen" blir jag aldrig av med. Jag påminns nästan varje dag av smärtan!

Och det ofattbara som beskrivs i spalten till höger sker faktiskt i November 2006.

I am giving hard critisism against a particular boat bottom paint, where the producer has advertised it as the solution for osmosis boats already 15 years ago, and both me and a Swedish boat magazine tried their solution and failed completely, with a result even worse than before treatment.
This and the fact that they still produce and sell a product that doesn't even function properly above water, as a watertight under water seal (look at my boat cradle where the rust penetrates through the paint from beneath) is what the text above and to the right is about.

Jag blev faktiskt bestört över att se besättningen på Ostindiefararen Götheborg vid ommålningen av botten i Shanghai stå och skrapa sönder vattenfyllda färgblåsor och säga att det är fullt normalt att det blir så.
Ja, för den där "Inte otecka" färgen kanske det är normalt!

Vilken normalt funtad färgtillverkare som helst skulle aldrig lanserat en sådan produkt. Det räcker med att testa den ett år så ser man vad den går för.

 Observera att det ser ut som om de målar om med epoxytjära av samma fabrikant i slutet av filmen.

Varför tror ni? ;-)

Kolla in filmen här
Klicka minst två gånger på startknappen!
på Götheborgs hemsida!

Nu har jag dessutom räknat på det. I teorin håller plasten i 24000 år. Om jag inte gör något mer åt böldpesten blir båten kanske lite sladdrig om 200 år ungefär. Med det perspektivet har jag fått ett visst sinneslugn. 

Nu är det inte så att jag ignorerar problemet helt. Jag tar hand om blåsorna när de kommer, men oroar mig inte längre. Känns bra!

Och jag använder huvudsakligen Hempels produkter. Känns också bra!

I have made a few calculations (not all by myself) and have come to a conclution.

In theory, the glass fibre will last for about 24,000 years.
If I don't do anything at all about the osmosis, the boat will probably get sloppy in the hull, in about, let's say roughly 200 years!
This perspective has given me a certain amount of calmness!

I don't ignore the problem, I take care of the blisters when they appear, but I don't worry, feels good!

I also use Hempel's products chiefly, feels good too!

Lisa Ekdahl

Listen to and watch the movie!

Performance, Music, Song and lyrics
by
Lisa Ekdahl
Her own website

I can't resist posting this goodie too

It Had To Be You!

If you need to download RealPlayer

A literal translation of the song "Vem vet".

Who knows

"Trumpet Introduction"

You are a saga too good to be true
it is a saga of itself that we have found each other
We could as well, ever never met,
or were our encounter already set
even long before we were born

Who knows, not you
who knows, not me
we know nothing now
we know nothing today

Who knows, not you
who knows, not me
we know nothing now
we know nothing today

"Trumpet Solo"

Fidraklubben
 Sorry, in Swedish only!
    

Fisksätravarvets historia
Sorry, in Swedish only!

Sven Yrvind.
In a wonderful Gothenburgish Swenglish!

Nordica Boats Website
In good English, by obvious reasons :-)

Några roliga länkar!

A Few Good Links
 

Good Boats in Russia
Sorry, in Russian only!

My regular supplier (the shop next door)
Byggplast & Båtprylar
Sorry, in Swedish only!
A wide range of products obtainable from most guest harbours in Sweden, often within 24 hours.

Watski
Shops in every guest harbours with pride in Northern Europe!
Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian.
Polish will probably come too, soon!

THE Circumnavigator
Evgeny Gvozdev
and his boat
Said.
Mostly in Russian, a few articles and explanations in Spanish and English, but the pictures tells the story!

I have found the article below from Voice of Russia

Russian yachtsman was found dead near Naples

Russia’s iconic yachtsman Evgeny Gvozdev was found dead on a beach near Naples on Saturday in what specialists say is the aftermath of a severe storm, which occurred in the open sea earlier in the week. Noted globetrotter, Gvozdev left the Russian port of Novorossiysk in September to circumnavigate the globe – his third such voyage in the past few years. 14.12.2008.

January 16, 2010.
My suggestion to include Evgeny Gvozdev in the "Table of solo circumnavigators" has been reviewed and accepted by the Joshua Slocum Society International.

Midgetclub
Sorry, in Dutch only!

Wikipedia
Sorry, in Swedish only!

The Havsfidra register
In Swedish only!

Råbandsknop = Reef Knot/Square Knot(US)

Sailing Terms

Pålstek = Bowline

Dubbelt Halvslag = Clove Hitch

Φ

S 129

Curette

Handmade bow ladder integrated in the pulpit. Double fore stay for jib on Peter boom, and 10 sqm genua or 15 sqm genua where the sheets are drawn back to blocks at the pushpit. This genua has to be reefed at 5 m/sec, and taken down completely before 9 m/sec. Max speed 5.5 knots under half wind, but it gives a poor sight forward to leeward and is difficult to handle when tacking. 
All halyards goes down to the cockpit.

The boat is chained to the cradle. A necessity with the mast still standing during winter storms.

The cradle has two main wheels and three swiveled which makes it able to turn around its own axis. Exchangeable pulling device for either tractor or car.

Deck lights and a telescopic boom or boat hook, Extendable to 4 meters.

Vikingaflöjeln i koppar och mässing med drakmönster är utsågad för hand, lagrad med dubbla rostfria kullager och balanserad med en motvikt. Fungerar inte bara perfekt efter tjugo år utan har ett stort personligt affektionsvärde för mig.

En sötvattenskyld Albin O21 driver en 16 tums trebladig propeller. Henrik underkänner just anoden som måste bytas.

Jadå, den är bytt!

A sweet water cooled Albin O21 with a 16 inch three bladed propeller.
The anode was not approved by Henrik.
Now it is replaced.

The Viking style weather vane in copper and brass is crafted by hand and has double stainless roller bearings and is perfectly balanced with a counterweight. Has worked fine all year round for more than 20 years now.
My Dad spent many winter evenings sawing out the dragon pattern many years ago!

For those of you that wonder, I do take tele photos of the chritical parts in the mast head every year, to ensure myself everything is allright, since I have quit taking the mast down, and built a steel support under deck instead.
It's less harm done to the mast and stays this way. The only negative is the difficulty to wax the mast. It's impossible!
 :-)

Utseendemässigt tycker jag det var en förbättring med träluckorna. Det är dock rätt mycket merjobb på våren, att behöva ägna så mycket tid åt sju trädetaljer, till en båt som för övrigt är byggd helt i glasfiber, men det måste ske varje vår. Det synliga spåren efter en (1) utebliven vårrustning kommer aldrig att försvinna, vatteninträngningen precis utanför mässingsramen runt fönstret, suck!

Behind the back of the sofa is a high-pressure kerosene kitchen attached. Balanced for use even in rough weather at sea.

The steel support is to prevent the roof from being compressed by the mast weight.
The last time the mast was taken down was in 1988, I think.

The curtain also works to cover the doorway to the front cabin.

With closed doors the kitchen china will stay put, even if not in complete silence.

The closet...

...is nowadays occupied by a cooling box. :-)

On starboard below cockpit.
Except from wardrobe there is space for the gasoline tank with filters and the bilge pump, and the main switch.

The whole glory in one view!

On port below cockpit.
Please ignore the bucket. This is also used as wardrobe and for spare ropes.
The heater is seen in the backround, as well as parts for the sweetwater cooling system.

This is a view I will only show you once!
Do never go back here again!

It's behind the instrument panel.
To the left is the expansion vessel for the sweetwater cooling system.
In the lower centre is a three-way valve run backwards, to make it possible to shut off the cooling water for the exhaust system shortly before shut down of engine.
To the right is a part of the bilge water pump visable.

My only defence when it comes to the electric connections is that every cable is soldered or screwed thouroghly by myself. It has worked without problems since I think 1984, and will continue to do so if I only can keep meddlesome people away even in the future!

I replaced the start key with a pulling switch and a push buttom many years ago, of safety reasons.
A friend of mine wounded his knee, and broke off the key. It was not especially fun!

It's also very easy to instruct passengers that if the skipper happens to leave the boat, even if he reluctantly do this, especially if there is some coffee left, it's just to push on every button, even under sail, because even the autopilot will eventually sease to keep the boat on coarse, and make it come to a halt.
:-)

I'm not very happy with the heater. It needs cleaning, but is so terrible to pick apart, that I don't have the strength to do it any longer.

If I only had known better, I would never have bought and installed this heater!

Just to clean the burner, and it seems to be necessary every, or every second year, one has to disconnect and take the whole unit down, Screw the bottom off, and then divide the unit in two halves. One has to lift the right half off, otherwise the interior will fall out in small parts. All this has to be done just to change the wick.

In a good construction this should have been done from below, without tools!

I'm lucky to still have my old HeatPal!

Broöppning.
Swing bridge at Tottnäs.

Fifång.
The island Fifång.

The secret favourite island.
One of the 24,000 to choose from!

Vila.
Rest.

Sjösättning 2006

The launch 2006

During our Henrik's first summer 2002 we didn't get out on the water at all.
Of safety reasons I didn't trust neither the boat nor myself, mostly the latter. 
So we have left Curette on land for a couple of seasons.

 Nu i sommar har jag däremot blivit övertalad av Henrik själv att sjösätta. Så bättre sent än aldrig, i slutet av Juli blev det av. Inte så smart att rusta båt i den värmebölja som varit i Juli, stundtals kändes det som om jag skulle stryka med på kuppen.

This summer however, Henrik himself has persuaded me to launch, so better late than never, in the end of July it all began.
It wasn't especially smart to do the hard labor during the heat wave that arrived to Scandinavia in July.

The Birchtrees gave so much wind shelter, and the sun was shining on the yard, heating it up to a degree unbearable to work physically. I actually gave up a couple of times because of too much heat. Sometimes I kept the car running just to let the AC cool me down.

The hull is waxed. Should have been rubbed first, but I didn't have the strength in 36°C.

The deck and doghouse was partially covered with lichen, where the birch twigs touched the boat. 

Due to environmental reasons we cannot use the same copper based, or containing aluminum, or biocides, bottom paint in the Baltic Sea as in the other seven seas.
This time I have hardly painted at all.
We are only going to stay in the water for a month, or so.
How wrong wasn't that statement!
It became four months!

At last! The proper element.

Our Grand Old Northern Pike has been overrun by a boat, and killed by the propeller, twice! Both in the neck and tail.
He, or more probable She, is the biggest Pike I've seen, I guess at a weight around 12-15 kg. The boat hook is exactly one inch (25 mm) thick.
It's so sad!

The same evening she was cleaned from top to toe!

Ignition! Start! Click, click! What the...? Doesn't start?

Ok, now we have a new battery.
Ignition on! Start!
Vroom, vroom!

Take her out to the dock Henrik!
Painter off!
Starboard the helm!
Slow ahead!

Ay ay, Sir!
(A one-off event for me, to be called Sir)

Isn't it fantastic? With a new battery the engine starts immidiatily after three years on dry land, with only two small puffs of smoke from the conservation oil.

År 2006 är det exakt 100 hundra år sedan Albin började bygga inombordsmotorer.
Kan vara bra att veta!

In 2006 it is exactly 100 years since Albin Larsson in Kristinehamn made the first serial produced marine engine.
It's good to know!

Vår motor är inte riktigt så gammal.

Albin O21, gjuten och ihopsatt 1964. Helrenoverad av MG-Specialisten på Wittstocksgatan i Stockholm 1988. Jag kompletterade med sötvattenskylning och en extra 35 watts växelströmsgenerator också. Så här finns gott om kraft, både för propeller och batteri.

Our engine is not quite that old.
It's an Albin O21, built in 1964, renovated in 1988 by MG-Specialisten in Stockholm, when I bought it to replace the old O11. At the same time I installed a sweet water cooling system, and a 35 watt AC generator.
Now there is enough power for both propulsion and electric equipment.

Now it's time to mount the brand new sprayhood, and new window curtains, and then it's time to pray to the weather gods!

Sprayhood in place! Can you imagine that it did fit in all the old buttons except in the two front corners.

It feels more comfortable with the new window curtains.

Första turen för Henrik

(för motor)

First short trip for Henrik

Four, the same as my age!

Butterflies in the stomach, when out in a boat for the first time.

Båtsportkort 6173 NE-Tvären

Today this narrow lane is almost only used by leasure boats.
The red arrows points out the unexpected power line across the sound.

Christmas Eve Lighthouse was automated long ago.

Bokö Iso WRG 4s

58°51'8.06"N, 17°36'16.57"E

Link for Google Earth users.

Link for Google Maps.

The keepers house is a summer house nowadays. Behind this island it's open sea down to Poland, 240 nautical miles away.

I våra vatten ovanlig riggning, men behändig. Karl'n tog ner och beslog tre segel på nå´n minut! Ja, ett par då.

A German ketch, with a beautiful and in our waters unusual bluewater rigging.
The bloke took down three sails in just a minute! Well, a couple of minutes then.

Home, sweet home!

He came from no where, made three turns around us, did let me take photos of him, and disappeared, probably to the camping grounds in background. But, we are not sure, we lost him!

Joshua Slocum

A Swedish replica of  The Spray met outside the town of Trosa in the southern archipelago of Stockholm, Sweden.

Spray, Ohoj!

Tänk att jag såg på många hundra meters håll att det var en kopia av Spray!

Det är den där skrovformen!

Spray Ohoy!
Can you imagine, I recognised her as a replica of the Spray several hundred meters away!
It's that beautiful hull shape!

Nova Scotia born, with family roots in New England, Captain Joshua Slocum commanded some of the finest tall ships that ever sailed the seas. On April 24, 1895, at the age of 51, he departed Boston in his tiny sloop Spray and sailed around the world single-handed, a passage of 46,000 miles, returning to Newport, Rhode Island on June 27, 1898. This historic achievement made him the patron saint of small-boat voyagers, navigators and adventurers all over the world.

Så roligt att för första gången få möta en svensk Spray i hemmavattnen! Jag har sett en dansk Spray på besök i Mölle en gång för många år sedan. Då blev jag också alldeles till mig. :-)

It's so very nice to meet a Spray in our home waters! I have seen a Danish Spray in the harbor of Mölle many years ago. It took me weeks to get normal after that encounter too! :-)

Now, a year or so later I have found that she is a charter boat.
View her own website here!

Joshua Slocum Society

Wikipedia

Fairhaven Memorials

Westport, Brier Island

The plaque shown above is from a memorial stone placed in a park in the town Fairhaven in Massachusetts. Today it's a park, but onehundred years ago it was the meadow outside town where Joshua Slocum rebuilt and replaced every plank in the Spray he got as a gift from an acquaintant sea captain with the words "She wants some repairs".

There is another monument near Westport on Brier Island in Nova Scotia.
Joshua Slocum was born on February 20, 1844 on the slope of North Mountain, a ridge between the Bay of Fundy and the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, but he was brought up here on the Brier Island which at the time was called Briar's Island after the Dog Rose.
Another probably as good explanation may be that the island is named after the early settler Captain Bryer.

Plaketten ovan är från en minnessten placerad i vad som idag är en park i staden Fairhaven i Massachusetts, men som för drygt etthundra år sedan var den äng strax utanför staden, där Joshua Slocum helrenoverade och bytte ut varenda planka i den gamla Spray han fått i gåva av en bekant sjökapten med orden "Hon kanske behöver repareras lite".

 Google Earth Placemark in Fairhaven

Det finns ett monument med en liknande plakett på ön där Joshua Slocum växte upp. Se även länkarna i menyn till vänster.

Placemark on Brier Island

Läs Joshua Slocums bok här på nätet!

Read Joshua Slocum's book here on the web!

SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD

Click above to choose among his three books.

Or,

Why not listen to this LibriVox audiobook?

Sailing Alone Around The World.

Read by Alan Chant.

A link directly to LibriVox at the Internet Archive.

In case you prefer to listen through your usual Windows Media Player,
Please choose from each chapter below.