Chris de Grabowski, first saw the sea when he was seven. From that moment, the sea was his passion. In 1959, at thirty-eight, he fulfilled his lifelong dream by sailing solo from Gibraltar to New York on his twenty-five foot sloop, "Tethys". Chris' account of his solitary eighty-four day journey details the grueling shakedown sail and the challenges and joys of a solo passage. His insight into the spiritual and emotional struggle to prepare for the...