The broken self‑steering gear that forced him to hand‑steer and kept him at sea
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The broken self‑steering gear that forced him to hand‑steer and kept him at sea
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Somewhere off Australia, deep in the Southern Ocean, the mechanical device that should have held a thirty-two-foot wooden ketch on course failed completely, leaving one man alone at the tiller for every waking hour that remained of his voyage. His hull was leaking. The nearest land was thousands of miles away in every direction. What happens to a solo sailor, and to the boat he cannot abandon, when the one machine built to make the voyage survivable simply stops working?
In this episode, we follow Robin Knox-Johnston's 1968–1969 non-stop solo circumnavigation aboard Suhaili from Falmouth to Cape Horn and back, asking what it actually took, mechanically and physically, to keep a failing boat moving when turning back was the only reasonable option.
Person: Robin Knox-Johnston
Location: Southern Ocean, aboard the ketch Suhaili
Date: April 22, 1969
Case: the compass that vanished from Suhaili after her return to Falmouth
Status: recovered and returned to Knox-Johnston in 2022, fifty-three years after it disappeared
- Knox-Johnston left Falm
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