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ONCE A FOOL! - From Japan to Alaska by Amphibious Jeep

Boyé Lafayette de Mente

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This is my account of an incredible 4-month long crossing of the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Shellikof Strait from Hokkaido, Japan to Anchorage, Alaska on an amphibious jeep dubiously named "Half-Safe" by its Australian owner who was in a 10-year process of sailing it around the world. I joined him in Tokyo and hung in until we reached Anchorage... The accidents and incidents that occurred to the jeep and between Carlin and myself include encounters with a Russian patrol ship, Japanese fishing nets, dealing with the torpedo-shaped gas tank we towed behind us and gassing up in bad weather, getting stuck in great beds of kelp, coming close to disaster several times; not to mention murder, meeting some incredible people along the Aleutian chain of islands, being mistaken for a Russian submarine, "floating" over a boiling sea, and finally encounting a 12-mile an hour tide when our top speed was 3 miles an hour when the ocean was smooth. The journey proved again the things people will do just to prove that they can do it. In this case, we made the Guinness Book of World Records. We also proved that the World War II amphibious jeeps [most of which sank immediately when off-loaded from transport ships] were capable of incredble feats after a bit of clever re-fitting.

Language: English

Format: Nook

Release: February 14, 2011

ISBN 13: 2940012221728

ONCE A FOOL! - From Japan to Alaska by Amphibious Jeep

Boyé Lafayette de Mente

0/5 ( ratings)

This is my account of an incredible 4-month long crossing of the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Shellikof Strait from Hokkaido, Japan to Anchorage, Alaska on an amphibious jeep dubiously named "Half-Safe" by its Australian owner who was in a 10-year process of sailing it around the world. I joined him in Tokyo and hung in until we reached Anchorage... The accidents and incidents that occurred to the jeep and between Carlin and myself include encounters with a Russian patrol ship, Japanese fishing nets, dealing with the torpedo-shaped gas tank we towed behind us and gassing up in bad weather, getting stuck in great beds of kelp, coming close to disaster several times; not to mention murder, meeting some incredible people along the Aleutian chain of islands, being mistaken for a Russian submarine, "floating" over a boiling sea, and finally encounting a 12-mile an hour tide when our top speed was 3 miles an hour when the ocean was smooth. The journey proved again the things people will do just to prove that they can do it. In this case, we made the Guinness Book of World Records. We also proved that the World War II amphibious jeeps [most of which sank immediately when off-loaded from transport ships] were capable of incredble feats after a bit of clever re-fitting.

Language: English

Format: Nook

Release: February 14, 2011

ISBN 13: 2940012221728

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