Sailing Around the World the Wrong Way: Volume I: Lake Michigan to Trinidad

This book is the true story of one man''s attempt to live out his lifelong dream of sailing around the world to strange foreign ports in his own sailboat. Upon retiring from teaching school and farming in Michigan, Harold Knoll, Jr. left his forthcoming sedentary life, took his sailboat down to the Gulf, and headed around the world. Few men have the courage to do this, even though most of us have these dreams.This Volume I covers the first part of his journey from Lake Michigan down the rivers to the Gulf; across to Florida; and then across to the Bahamas; down to the Dominican Republic; across to Puerto Rico; across the U.S. and British Virgin Islands; and through the West Indies to Trinidad. Future volumes will continue his trip around the world.Captain Knoll, a true free spirit, picks up crew as he travels along. In the process, he meets many very fascinating people and has many thrilling, and sometimes humorous, experiences. Forthcoming volumes will cover the eight years that he has spent going to Spain and Europe; the North Sea and Scandinavia; England, Scotland and the Irish Sea; the French Canal System; the Mediterranean Sea; and the Aegean Sea as he proceeds around the world the "wrong way" (against the prevailing easterly winds).

Harold Knoll, Jr.CaptainKnoll was born and raised in Michigan, where his free days were spent fishing,hunting, and boating. His dream of sailing to foreign ports developed at anearly age. He learned boating and sailing on Lake Macatawaand Lake Michigan. When he retired from teaching and farming, he began to live his dreamof sailing around the world. Since then, he has sailed very extensively inforeign lands. He has sailed his 32 ft. sloop over 35,000 miles at the time of writing this first volume. When heis temporarily home from his travels, he lives with his sailor wife in Montague, Michigan.Harold C. Byler, Jr.H. C. Byler learned to sail inthe 1950's in a sailboat that he and a friend designed and built. He became interested in ocean cruising andrecruited friends to rent boats and sail on the North Atlantic and Long Island Sound to Nantucket. He later sailed the Northwest Pacific, the Gulf coast of Florida, the Leeward and Windward Islands of the Caribbean, the North Sea from Denmark to Norway and the Western Mediterranean. He has authored severalprevious books and is applying this experience to assisting Captain Knoll withthis book. He lives in a small town in dry West Texas with his sailor wife of 48 years.