Kawabunga's South Seas Adventure: Blue Water Cruising in a Twenty Foot Boat (Microexplorer) - Hardcover

Dewell, Charles S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0966647203 ISBN 13: 9780966647204

Publisher: South Sea Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Kawabunga's South Seas Adventure, Blue Water Cruising In a 20 Foot Boat, is a romantic, true-life saga about an intrepid couple who follow their dream of sailing over the horizon to the South Seas. Join the Dewells in their tiny sloop Kawabunga, as they embark upon an extraordinary voyage.

Share in the excitement of Charlie's first offshore passage. He sails alone for 42 days from San Diego to the enchanted island of Nuku Hiva.

Margaret and Charlie rendezvous in Tahiti and cruise through the Societies before sailing up the Line Islands to Christmas Island. They spend three weeks on mysterious Palmyra Atoll, an uninhabited collection of islands and motus where they reclaim their childhood -- spending their days beachcombing and exploring Palmyra's three azure lagoons.

The couple drive little Kawabunga hard during the challenging 1,000 mile passage to the Hawaiian Islands -- testing their seamanship, their relationship and their courage. There is plenty of high-seas adventure on the passage home. Charlie single-hands the boat up and over the North Pacific High to Marina del Rey, fighting the battle of his life with a North Pacific storm.

Along the way the Dewells make new friends, overcome hardships and discover they are up to the challenges of storms at sea, equipment failures and riots in paradise. Kawabunga's South Seas Adventure will inspire you to follow your dream.

286 pages, 16 page color insert, glossary, extensive index, charts, line drawings, equipment list.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Dewell was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan. A year after graduating with a B.S. in business administration from Ferris State College, he moved to Southern California, where he worked in the insurance industry for eighteen years. He is the Dockmaster at Holiday Harbor Marina and lives aboard Kawabunga with his wife Margaret in Marina del Rey, California. He has sailed his entire life. This is his first book.

Review:

"Kawabunga's South Seas Adventure proves again that you do not need a six digit-priced yacht to enjoy blue water cruising. In their sturdy 20-foot yacht, the Dewells did the California-Tahiti-Hawaii circuit with as much grace as any gold-plater. Places they visited and sailing challenges they met seem unchanged over the years suggesting that, unlike Alexander the Great's comment on there being no more lands to conquer, there are still waters to conquer by small boat.

Wannabe cruisers can step into the shoes of a plucky sailing couple via this book and learn how to cut the ties that bind them to urban bedlam while the armchair sailor will enjoy a nautical yarn with humor and grit and plenty of characters. You will experience a roller coaster ride of emotions as Charlie and Margaret tackle and overcome family and financial matters and the officialdom of new lands.

If you are not out sailing now, this is your inspiration to go cruising before it is too late." -- Earl Hinz, author of Landfalls of Paradise

"The story of their adventure is told with warmth and humor. . . He calls it as he sees it." -- Santana Magazine

A must read for the small boat cruiser who dreams of the long-haul into paradise. Good read." -- Latitudes & Attitudes

Cruisers considering venturing into blue water aboard a small craft will find Dewell's book invaluable. -- Dorothy Rice Bennett, The Log Newspapers

I could hardly put their book down because it was such an exciting read. -- David C. Henley, Publisher, Lahontan Valley News

About this edition

• Publisher: South Sea Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0966647203
• ISBN 13: 9780966647204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286