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Unit 2 Sailing Round the World

At sixty-five Francis Chichester set out to sail single-handed round the world.

This is the story of that adventure.

Before he sailed round the world single-handed, Francis Chichester had

already surprised his friends several times. He had tried to fly round the world but

failed. That was in 1931.

The years passed. He gave up flying and began sailing. He enjoyed it greatly.

Chichester was already 58 years old when he won the first solo transatlantic sailing

race. His old dream of going round the world came back, but this time he would

sail. His friends and doctors did not think he could do it, as he had lung cancer. But

Chichester was determined to carry out his plan. In August, 1963, at the age of

nearly sixty-five, an age when many men retire, he began the greatest voyage of

his life. Soon, he was away in this new 16-metre boat, Gipsy Moth.

Chichester followed the route of the great nineteenth century clipper ships.

But the clippers had had plenty of crew. Chicheater did it all by himself, even after

the main steering device had been damaged by gales. Chichester covered 14, 100

miles before stopping in Sydney, Australia. This was more than twice the distance

anyone had previously sailed alone.

He arrived in Australia on 12 December, just 107 days out from England. He

received a warm welcome from the Australians and from his family who had flown

there to meet him. On shore, Chichester could not walk without help. Everybody

said the same thing: he had done enough; he must not go any further. But he did

not listen.

After resting in Sydney for a few weeks, Chichester set off once more in spite

of his friends' attempts to dissuade him. The second half of his voyage was by far

the more dangerous part, during which he sailed round the treacherous Cape

Horn.

On 29 January he left Australia. The next night, the blackest he had ever

known, the sea became so rough that the boat almost turned over. Food, clothes,

and broken glass were all mixed together. Fortunately, bed and went to sleep.

When he woke up, the sea had become calm the nearest person he could contact

by radio, unless there was a ship nearby, Wild be on an island 885 miles away.

After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn, Chichester sent the following

radio message to London:" I feel as if I had wakened from a nightmare. Wild horses

could not drag me down to Cape Horn and that sinister Southern Ocean again."

Just before 9 o'clock on Sunday evening 28 May, 1967, he arrived back in

England, where a quarter of a million people were waiting to welcome him. Queen

Elizabeth II knighted him with the very sword that Queen Elizabeth I had sailed

round the world for the first time. The whole voyage from England and back had

covered 28, 500 miles. It had taken him nine months , of which the sailing time was

226 days. He had done what he wanted to accomplish.

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