![]() “After an extended visit to his boyhood home at Brier Island and visiting old haunts on the coast of Nova Scotia, Slocum departed North America at Sambro Island Lighthouse near Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 3, 1895. ![]() I felt there could be no turning back, and that I was engaging in an adventure the meaning of which I thoroughly understood.”Īccording to Slocum in Sailing Alone Around the World My step was light on deck in the crisp air. A photographer on the outer pier of East Boston got a picture of her as she swept by, her flag at the peak throwing her folds clear. A short board was made up the harbor on the port tack, then coming about she stood to seaward, with her boom well off to port, and swung past the ferries with lively heels. The twelve o’clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. “I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of Apwas fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. In his famous book, Sailing Alone Around the World, now considered a classic of travel literature, he described his departure in the following manner: On April 24, 1895, at the age of 51, he departed Boston in his tiny sloop Spray , a 36′ 9″ gaff rigged sloop oyster boat, and sailed around the world single-handed. ![]() ![]() Captain Joshua Slocum, a native of Novia Scotia, completed the feat on June 27th, 1898. ![]()
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