The captain began dreaming of a new adventure, something involving small boat navigation and loneliness at sea. While he and Heady found themselves living just a few blocks apart in east boston, Captain Slocum published a book about their experience. That turned into a three year ordeal that saw them getting shipwrecked building their own oversized sailing canoe and then sailing that boat which was christened, delivered odd back home.
Hedi and two of Joshua’s Children joined them on a merchant crews to brazil. And now it’s time for this week’s main topic when I last episode left off Captain Joshua Slocum had buried his beloved first wife Virginia near Buenos Aires returned to boston to grieve and met and married his second wife Hettie, Thank you.Īnd if you’re not yet supporting the show and you’d like to start, just go to Patreon dot com slash hub history or visit hub history dot com and click on the support us link and thanks again to all our new and returning sponsors. That consistency is the beauty of the loyal listeners who commit to giving as little as $2 on a monthly basis to support the show to all existing sponsors. So I’m glad I can rely on our sponsors to handle the financials While I just focus on the logistics of the move,
It’s a big project and it’s kind of intimidating to take on without doing anything to impact our current listeners. This is the audience continues to grow.Īnd also one that gives me richer stats about who’s listening to the show.ĭon’t worry, I’m not going to get your personal information, it will just be a better breakdown of what city you’re listening from and what sort of absent devices you used to listen. One where I’m not going to run out of bandwidth. I’m hoping to transition the podcast to a new host this summer. But before we talk about Captain Slocum’s adventures while sailing alone around the world, I just want to pause and thank everyone who supports hub history on Patreon. While his family worried that he had perished at sea and we’ll follow him on his pilgrimage to the home of Treasure Island, author, robert louis Stevenson, his inventor in South Africa and finally across the atlantic and home,Ĭovering about 46,000 miles in three years, two months and two days. We’ll learn how he sailed thousands of miles across the south pacific to Samoa without ever touching the wheel of this loop. In this episode, we’ll follow Captain Slocum as he builds the little slope spray and hatches a plan to make money for his family by sailing alone around the world.įor the very first time, we’ll follow his astounding path from boston to the rock of Gibraltar back to south America and through the months long ordeal of the straits of Magellan, If you haven’t listened to episode 247, hit pause now and go back and listen to it because you’re going to be confused otherwise. This week, I’m continuing the story of Joshua slocum and his solo circumnavigation of the globe, which I began in the last episode. This is episode 2 48, Sailing alone around the world. Welcome to hub history where we go far beyond the freedom trail to share our favorite stories from the history of boston, the hub of the universe.
Announces plans to sail solo around the world.“ Adventures in Celestial Navigation.” Creative Nonfiction, no. Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum.
And we’ll follow him on his pilgrimage to the home of Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson, his adventure in South Africa, and finally across the Atlantic and home, covering about 46,000 miles in three years, two months, and two days. We’ll learn how he sailed thousands of miles across the South pacific to Samoa without ever touching the wheel of the sloop, while his family worried that he had perished at sea. We’ll follow his astounding path from Boston to the rock of Gibraltar, back to South America, and through the months long ordeal of the Straits of Magellan. We’ll follow Captain Slocum as he builds the little sloop Spray and hatches a plan to make money for his family by sailing alone around the world for the first time. This episode continues our story of Joshua Slocum and his solo circumnavigation of the globe.
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