Sailing the Dream
The Amazing True Story of the Teen Who Sailed Solo Around the World
Mike Perham

University Press of New England



Contents

• Map
• Prologue
• MAKING WAVES
• Meet the Perhams
• The Idea
• Ocean's 14
• Money Troubles
• The Race to the Start Line
• Dry Land Disaster
• An Emotional Departure
• Storm Horizons
• Survival
Cheeky Monkey Vanishes
• A Flying Visit
• Endurance Test
• Swimming with Sharks
• Jack-of-All-Trades
• Record Breaker
• Fame!
• The Dream Becomes Reality
• Doubt
• Full Steam Ahead
• Leaving
• THE ATLANTIC
• Sailing the Dream
• Mikeworld
• Bad with the Good
• Las Palmas – Coming and Going
• Happy New Year – Not
• The Doldrums
• The Equator
• The Autopilot Strikes Back
• Life, the Universe and Chocolate
• The Need for Speed
• What Were the Odds?
• THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
• Into the South
• Ding-Dong Time!
• Knockdown!
• The Tough Get Going
• There and Back Again
• Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!
• THE PACIFIC
• Pacific Storm
• An Unexpected Swim
• That's Torn It
• The Panamanian Way
• Going Yo-Yo
• A Dream Surf
• THE ATLANTIC
• Collision Course
• Mercury Rising
• Homeward Bound
• Trouble at the Top
• One Last Ding-Dong
• The Finish Line
• Epilogue
• Afterword
• Acknowledgments
• Photo Acknowledgments
• Index
Illustrations are grouped in two sections, following page 102 and page 202.




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