Slow Boat Sailing Podcast

Ep. 47: Harry Pidgeon, Around the World-Single Handed the Cruise of the Islander Ch. 1-3 Read by Linus Wilson

04.24.2018 - By Linus WilsonPlay

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Harry Pidgeon was the first man to sail around the world in a small yacht via the Panama Canal. He did this historic trip in his 34-foot sailing yawl the ISLANDER between 1921-1924. You will hear the first three chapters of the audiobook, including how he built his boat on the beach for $1,000.

You can read the full eBook for Kindle of Harry Pidgeon's Around the World Single-Handed; the Cruise of the ISLANDER on Amazon. 

 USA - $.99 4/24/18-4/26/18 & $8.99 - 4/27/18 onward

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C3THFZV

Above is the USA link. Below are other country eBook links.

 Canada

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07C3THFZV

UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C3THFZV

Australia

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07C3THFZV

France

https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07C3THFZV

You can hear the rest of the audiobook of Harry Pidgeon's Around the World Single-Handed; the Cruise of the ISLANDER by pledging as little as $5 on 

www.Patreon.com/slowboatsailing

Harry Pidgeon was the first man to sail around the world via the Panama Canal in a small sailboat or yacht. Unlike Joshua Slocum he pioneered the most popular round the world sailing circumnavigation route which passes through the Panama Canal and under the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Agulhas.

GET AROUND THE WORLD SINGLE-HANDED by Harry Pidgeon in eBook at

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C3THFZV

Joshua Slocum was lost at sea before the Panama Canal was built and had to sail through the Straits of Magellan in Patagonia. Harry Pidgeon was a farmer from Iowa who built a wooden, engine-less boat on the beach in Los Angeles, California. It was a 34-foot gaff-rigged yawl called, the ISLANDER. Harry Pidgeon was the first man to sail around the world twice in a yacht, and the second to sail around the world alone in a small sailboat. He sailed to Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Fiji, Samoa, the New Hebrides, New Guinea, the Torres S

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