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Synopsis
The big adventure begins when Yaghan leaves Bullando Marina in Stockholm on June 1, 2006. Arne and Helene Martensson have both left important banking jobs in order to take on an entirely different kind of challenge - circumnavigating the world. Arne is chairman of Handelsbanken as well as on the board of some of Swedens lagerst companies when he and Helene decide to pursue their dream and sail around the world. They travel west through the trade wind belt along the equator in the wake of James Cooks first expedition. They continue all the way down to the dangerous, but beautiful, Antarctic after which they sail up the coast of Chile and around the islands of Patagonia. The Yaghan is a 62-foot Hallberg-Rassy equipped with the latest in modern technology and everrything else that makes a cruise around solitary waters easier. All important functions are doubled as an extra precaution in situations when help is a long way away. Arne and Helene write about how to equip a yacht to cope with an extreme circumnavigation, criteria for weather and route analyses, fantastic scenery and, above all, about their choice to leave the financial world in order to lead another kind of life. The Yaghan website and blog attracted 600.000 hits during the three year circumnavigation and the twenty, ten-minute films at Youtube (subtitles in English, German and 50 other languages) have been wachted 200.000 times during the first year. The channel is Etaomega07. "Back at the helm" describes the first half of the circumnavigation. In May 2011 the book about the second half " In the wake of Cook - sailing the Yaghan to New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the Caribbean" was published as a Kindle ebook.
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About the Author
Arne Martensson was raised in Vanersborg where his father ran a chandlers, and he started to sail at the age of six. After graduating from the Stockholm School of Economics he was employed at Handeslbanken, and only thirty-eight years old he was appointed managing director and CEO of Handelsbanken where he stayed for over thirty years, fifteen as a managing director/chairman of the board. During this time he was also on the board of six of Swedens largest companies. Arne Martensson is an honorary doctor at the Stockholm School of Economics and honorary chairman of Handelsbanken. He has participated in boats races all his professional life. His is a marathon runner in his spare time and has run twenty-five marathons in Stockholm, Berlin och New York. Helene Martensson has a degree from the Gothenburg School of Economics. In the 1970s she was chief accountant of companies within the Bonnier publishing group. After spending some time in Greece she joined Handelsbanken's foreign department after which she worked as a business manager at the regional head office in Stockholm. Then she spent serveral years with business development at the Handelsbanken Liv insurance company. Helene enjoys running, skiing, ridning and playing golf in her spare time. She has run several races in Stockholm as well as eighteen marathons in Stockholm, Berlin and New York.
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- PublisherNorstedts
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 911302809X
- ISBN 13 9789113028095
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages237
- IllustratorBjorn Backman, Jesper Skoog, Chris Lewis, Sture Soderlund
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