Chapter - 2: “We’re Not Afraid to Die...If We can All be Together”
Author: Gordon Cook & Alan East
Summary
Dream Came True
A 37-year-old businessman and his own family had dreamt of sailing inside the wake of the famous explorer Captain James Cook and for the beyond 16 years the members of the own family had spent all their entertainment time honing their sea-faring skills in British waters. The narrator, his spouse Mary, son Jonathan 6, daughter Suzanne (Sue) 7, set sail from Plymouth, England to copy the round-the-world voyage earlier made by Captain James Cook.
The first Leg Covered
The first leg of 1, 05,000 km spanning over three years, passed pleasantly from the west coast of Africa to Cape Town. They took two crewmen, American Larry Vigil and Swiss Herb Seigler to tackle the roughest sea, the Southern Indian Ocean.