The Mysterious Disappearance Of A Sea Pioneer | Joshua Slocum Documentary | Timeline

[Music] in 1898 the Canadian sea captain named Joshua Slocum sailed into Newport Harbor completing a 46,000 mile voyage the first man ever to sail alone around the world his voyage has inspired thousands to follow in his way like Magellan and the astronauts Slocum helps shrink the globe his book on the voyage is a classic of maritime literature his complex life swung from poverty to presidents through mutiny shipwreck prison and even murder his renown has grown steadily in the 90 years since his death he is Joshua Slocum the New World Columbus dead for almost a century Slocum's legacy is vibrantly alive around the world there have been more replicas of his yawl than of any other boat in history how many other books written in 1900 are still in print he has admirers around the globe historian and writer Myra Lopes he was in my opinion someone who should be put up there with the greatest heroes of the world Slocum's life is still studied and emulated on training ships like this one seen here racing from his hailing port of Boston to his birthplace of Nova Scotia there's a man in England who makes copies of the spray and and he estimates that as many as 800 have been made since so comes on voyage which was from 1895 to 1898 so he's had a huge influence on people because what he did really change people's ideas of freedom and of Independence he is honored with plaques from Brier Island to Tasmania I therefore William F well governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby declare April 24th 1995 as Joshua's welcomed a commoner Ted Jones runs the Joshua Slocum Society he was brave and he was exceptionally smart even that we only had two years of school so I think what we admire about people like that is that they've done it single-handedly bars hotel rooms and restaurants like this one a Newport Beach California are named for the well-traveled Mariner Nova Scotian and New England mantelpieces are rife with models of the plucky little boat but most of the replicas are full-sized in Raleigh Massachusetts a tattooed fiery sea dog named Ken McArthur worked for years building this spray replica until 1980 when project was taken over by Fred ebinger I was acquainted with the Builder when I was kind of a little boy and when I first saw it I just thought it was a pirate ship washed up on the beach Glen Pearson sailing his spray replica the Thane and the outer harbor of Victoria BC is typical of the many people who have emulated Slocum's lighting one day I would just drive along I found a boat under a cherry tree and I recognized it as a spring so I I gave the guy my 68 Chevy for the hull and put the decks in kind of an honor and built her up here she is at the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Slocum circumnavigations ship builder Edie Davis arrives from Maine with his replica an actor Michael Hagen from Canada in costume is Slocum with a group of Slocum aficionados they're sailing across Boston Harbor Oh Joshua left a bit of a legend and it's that legend of each man in time having they desired the dream to go to see the Slocum is more than the inspiration he's the man who did it and he's the man by which you prepare what you do David Dunn was an Idaho school teacher who dropped his career for a complex 10-year project on the Ancient Mariner we are going to recreate Slocum's voyage in its entirety again we'll Malena and exit the ports the same time Slocum did our vessel is the largest copy of the spray ever made we have totally rebuilt her and systems are set up as an expedition vessel and then teams of teachers will join me in teams of three they will teach via satellite into the internet and the lessons to be distributed around the world who is this man who inspires such enthusiasm Slocombe was born on the edge of the Bay of Fundy in he writes a cold spot on coldest north mountain on a cold February 20th 1844 his birthplace survives today as does this school were memorial to its most famous pupil who attended from 1850 to 52 when his father unable to make a living from the farm moved his family of 11 to the rugged southwestern tip of Nova Scotia Brier Island at the entrance of the Bay of Fundy then they would have sailed for the little island today you arrived by a fairy named for the islands most celebrated son now it's best known for whales and whale watching [Music] then the Islanders eat to fragile existence from the sea most of the buildings were made from Timbers of ships wrecked on its beaches and rocks [Music] Slocombe was forced into weekly attendance here at the Westport Baptist Church by his tyrannical father who acted as Deacon of the church and held pew 13 for the family he also pulled Slocum from school to work in this boot shop turning out leather boots for the island fishermen so although Joshua would become not only an accomplished sea captain but also an acclaimed writer he had left school with only a grade school education Slocum hated the boot shop fascinated by the ships outside the grimy windows he would retreat into his own world carving a complex ship model when his father found what he called the devil's handiwork he smashed it underfoot destroying what was left of his relationship with his son when his mother died a year later Slocum ran away to sea first as a cook on a schooner and then on a deal drugger sailing for Liverpool [Music] the wonderful see charmed me from the first I was born in the breezes and I studied the sea as perhaps few have neglecting all else the 1860s the height of the age of saying [Music] as many Tall Ships were on the north atlantic then as jetliners are and the great parts of Liverpool New York Halifax and Quebec were a forest at Nova Scotian spruce in another 20 years it would be all over unaware that his skills would soon be commercially useless Joshua Slocum threw himself into learning the ropes and studying the demanding science just as kids his age do today the company on today's tall ships may be better than it was in Slocum's day that the sea is unchanged the fog is just as thick the water just the waves justice big the masts still is tomorrow there goes the Sun over that way crossing the horizon at an angle above the horizon and figuring out where you are using a sextant trigonometry and celestial navigation is still just as complicated all right so the book tells us declination the sextant tells us H oh all we have to do is add or subtract the right way using the formula similar to this and we've got our latitude bingo that's exactly how Columbus did it - Slocum became a master navigator a skillet would serve him not only on the many tall ships he commanded but even more so on his epic but ridiculously underfinanced voyage alone around the world my old chronometer which was a good one had been long in disuse I tried to get it cleaned and rated but they wanted $15 for it $15 they may as well ask for the moon I traveled with nothing when I got to Nova Scotia but once I got to Yarmouth they got my famous tin clock the only time piece I carried on the whole voyage the price of it was a dollar and a half but on account of the face being smashed the merchant let me have it for a dollar so Slocum navigated some of the world's most difficult and treacherous waters using a $1 tin floppy he is the lunar men considered laborious and archaic even then it's forgotten today but it had the advantage of not requiring absolutely accurate time thus not requiring the $15.00 Slocum didn't have his extraordinary navigation was further tested when a goat given to him by the Islanders of st. Helena ate his only chart of the Caribbean so Slocum not only circumnavigated the globe without a chronometer but sometimes without a chart relying on his memory of past trips through the Caribbean islands Slocum's interests were narrow but deep he was obsessed with the sea and loved with it [Music] throughout the 1860s in the 1870s he sailed the Atlantic the Caribbean the Pacific and the South China Sea he also tried bulk building and fishing and for a season hunting sea otters off the coast of British Columbia by 1869 he won command of his first ship coasting schooner then moved up to a Barca the year later he sailed to Australia where he would meet and marry the second love of his life [Music] at a dance in Sydney Australia Slocum met the woman who would become his wife her name was Virginia Albertina Walker and she was very striking very beautiful he fell in love with her and he was only there three weeks and this just tells you how fast a man he was he fell in love he dated her and he asked her to marry him and she said yes he married her January 31st 1871 and she was very willing to be a sea captain's wife a year later their first child was born Victor Virginia had all her children at sea it didn't matter where they were in the world if there was someone who was available to help Virginia with the birth that was fine they might be in the middle of a stormy sea but Virginia just seemed to accept those conditions and that was a way of life for sea captain's wives in 1881 Slocum one command and part ownership of the Northern Light at that time considered the finest American vessel afloat it was the pinnacle of the age of sail and the pinnacle of Joshua Slocum's career he had financial success he was well respected and round the world five times had been captain of the five of the best ships and then when he had the opportunity to buy the Northern Light he knew it was his dream come true it was only 40 years old but there was a cloud on the horizon a cloud of smoke from the steam ships that were being launched everywhere taking over and destroying Slocum's world and the age of sail in the 1880s they built the Brooklyn Bridge and slung it low enough across the East River that only steam ships could get under it when the world's biggest Harbor was suddenly cut off from the sailing ships that had created it it was a terrible symbol of what was to come Slocombe made a last voyage around the world in the northern light but a mutinous crew made the trip a disaster from start to finish they came at the captain with knives without what they could hold in their hand and he was fighting someone who had a knife and was aiming at his throat when Virginia came on death the instigator was taken off and handcuffed and taken off to jail the mate was killed in the middle of the Pacific Slocum came upon five shipwrecked castaways the ship had a close brush with Krakatoa the most terrible volcanic explosion in all of history of South Africa it was hit by a storm that destroyed its sails and all its Carly on the voyage home Slocombe rightly or wrongly imprisoned an ex-convict now second mate named Henry Slater the incident would result in criminal charges against the captain it will continue to find him years later as he sailed alone around the world Slocum was sailing against the tide he watched as the masts of his once magnificent vessel were sawn off the hull turned into a coal barge it was another terrible symbol of the end of his world steam ships filthy stinking steam ships Slocum called them were taking over Slocum was loyal to his calling but thousands left it it became more and more difficult to get anyone but the worst dregs of society to work the sailing shoes but Slocum soldiered on downgrading to a smaller ship the Aquidneck and began running cargo between North and South America again he took his wife and family traveling with him but while they were anchored in a steamy Cove off when Osiris Virginia died of heart failure on July the 25th 1884 it was a huge blow to Joshua and the captain was devastated because this was a marriage of 13 years and he truly loved this woman Vulcan was never the same in fact his son Victor said that his father was like a ship with a broken rudder Slocum returned to sea returned to America in 19 months after Virginia's death entered into an ill-fated marriage of convenience with his Nova Scotia born cousin Eddie Elliott it soon became a marriage of inconvenience following Virginia's death Slocum was visited in quick succession by most of the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse trying to ship a load of pudding packaged jamuns to Brazil through a winter storm he lost them and the rest of the cargo compounding his financial difficulties as they sailed south to Argentina the crew became infected with smallpox and cholera then after two years of trouble with cargoes storms Latin American red tape and epidemics Slocum bottomed out with the worst calamity of all for a Mariner shipwreck I'll wager that since man first took to the oceans there have been literally millions of ships sunk on the edges or the bottom of the seas but hefty precedent doesn't make you feel any better you hear that terrible sound of keel striking bottom or feel the awful sensation as your ship cuts her way not through water but into granite on a sandbar in Brazil beside the bones and heart of his broken ship Slocum's career as a merchant captain was ended from now on he would be a wanderer his new mission his legend his Odyssey had begun [Music] now Joshua by the time he paid the crew off had lost everything so he hadn't very much money hadn't got no money to get home and he got his wife and two sons with them and he decided the only real way to get home was to build a seagoing canoe from what he could salvage from the main ship 120 years later a Welsh seaman named David Senate Jones was in a similar position his career as a professional racing driver was wrecked when he lost a lung to cancer his first boat a replica of Slocum spray lay at the bottom of the Irish Sea [Music] like Slocum on a beach in Brazil David said about to rebuild his life [Music] I said to Suzanne that's what I should do if I can get sponsorship to build Liberty because I'm sure right so I haven't got a ship so this is what I should do the same as Joshua did deep he'll deliver daddy when he was shipwrecked in southern Brazil David built a replica the first ever of the 36 foot sailing canoe that Slocum had built with his family on the Brazilian beach the Liberdade voyage fifty-eight hundred miles from Brazil to Washington DC was quite remarkable Slocum turned the trip into his first book the voyage of the Liberty and with it began the tradition of Bluewater family cruising adventure that continues to this day [Music] Davidson at Jones's voyage is almost as remarkable this 71 year old with one lung sailed his Liberdade alone from Wales to Brazil and then recreated Slocum's route sailing from paranoia to Martha's Vineyard [Music] another first for Slocum once they got to the US was to push their way north through the swamps and wetlands of the Carolinas that's becoming one of the very first blue water boats to navigate what is now called the Intracoastal Waterway the great civil war photographer Mathew Brady took this portrait of Slocum he was earning notoriety but little else his new wife after the terrors of the shipwreck and the dangers the voyage back would never sail again she took the children by rail back to live with her inland relatives the marriage was beginning to crumble [Music] within five years Slocombe had lost virtually everything his wife his home his money his family and his profession he had run aground [Music] the world was changing rapidly electric trams were replacing horses railways were replacing ships steam replacing Sam Slocum tried to adjust taking on the dangerous difficult task of delivering a steam warship the destroyer to a dissident Brazilian General the Brazilians managed to sink the ship Slocum was never paid and he returned home bankrupt in pocketbook and spirit a chance visit to a reading by the great novelist Herman Melville would change his life at the same time as the age of sail was waning as Melville along with other writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson instilled a new spirit of adventure in a dream of islands in the smoky industrial land skilled exclamation of delight she disengaged from her person the tapper robe which was knotted over her shoulder and spreading it out like a sail stood erect with arms upraised in the head of the canoe Slocum was inspired if there was no more need for sailing captain's then one would just go in smaller boats with family or friends as crew or indeed sail alone and then like Melville and Stephenson turn the adventure in the literature and make the voyage pay by telling others about it so Slocum morphed from successful ship's captain to penniless homeless writer in the economic gales of the 1890s with all the old landmarks missing the boys sunk the lighthouses out Slocum was in danger of foundering in a Boston shipyard a chance meeting with an old Whaler would put his life back on course captain eben Perce was a whaling captain who had made his fortune and contributed mightily to the decimation of the world's whales when Benny gonna power harpoon he listened to the tale of Captain Slocum's declining fortunes he want a ship he asked come down to Fair Haven I'll give you a ship the ship purse was offering was the spray a rotting hundred year old oyster smack with a tree growing through it Slocum found it here in this field this is where he rebuilt it where he launched it and where he returned three years two months and two days later ignoring the Yankee naysayers who asked how it would pay to rebuild the old derelict Slocum set to work just as David Dunn would 120 years later when he began rebuilding focusing her lives of spray replica his first task would have been to build a steam box for the planks for his home by the time he had finished he had replaced virtually every timber in the ancient tub with each new ribbon frame he rebuilt and reshaped not only the spray but his own life it was a lot of work and a pretty rough-looking project but the the the bare essentials were there in aces and it was very very good then Pearson could be talking of Slocum's work but in fact he's talking about so I did a lot of scrounging most of the teak came from old steamer doors from an abandoned shipyard and I chased old demolition companies around to scrounge the best material out of the houses that were being torn down in Victoria back in the 70s so every piece of wood on this boat is has a history having spent 13 months at exactly 550 $3.62 on the boat Slocum launched her and sailed to Boston there he met Mabel Wagnalls 24 heir to the funk and Wagnalls publishing Empire she told him to follow his dream to be the first man to sail alone around the world everyone else said he was crazy but she told him the spray will come back Slocum weighed anchor and set sail on April the 24th 1895 after lingering in Gloucester she sailed for his old hometown westward Brier nova scotia what did he find on the island he had left 35 years earlier a place little changed and indeed not profoundly changed today though now full of memorials to its most famed resident phil shea remembers his great-aunts response to Slocum's visit invite a lanai for the ladies she said and my father didn't like it so when he was here on the spra he took some ask some of the young ladies were sport to go out for a sale and she was very disappointed because her father wouldn't let her while filming on Brier Island our crew uncovered a letter by Slocum from Gibraltar which corrects the story told by all his previous biographers Slocum did not leave from Yarmouth as all maps of his voyage would have it but rather sailed to Halifax apparently to pick a fight with some unnamed enemy at the last minute he changed his mind sailed around George's Island and headed back out to sea since Slocum virtually invented single-handed sailing he had to figure out a way to deal with the utter Alumnus of it at first he tried calling out commands to imaginary mates but my voice he said sounded hollow on the empty air soon the excitement of his adventure overcame the solitude of it his next landfall was the Azores just as the transoceanic Wanderers salient slogans wake do today he attended shoreside services honoring the local Saints and then left his mark on the seawall he was also given some plums and white cheese that almost killed him he got sick food poisoning one time and a big storm coming up he's lying down below deathly ill can't save his life and he looks up on deck and standing at the Helms there's a man with a black beard and a red bandanna who explains he's the pilot of the pinzon when the Columbus's men come to help in his time of need he says skipper rest easy I'll take care of your ship for you so Slocum rolls over and goes to sleep next morning he wakes up sun shining storms going down spray a sailor course everything's normal Slocum's apparition continued to help him through difficult moments but he was not needed on the next stop Gibraltar where Slocum was greeted as a celebrity and royally hosted by the British Navy but they told him that his planned route was far too dangerous and so convinced that the Mediterranean and red seas were infested with pirates Slocum headed back across the Atlantic bound for Cape Horn it would be no good heading for Panama that project had only begun transforming the world by digging a canal within days he was attacked by pirates after all off the Atlantic coast of Morocco or so said the newspapers and so says his book were they really pirates or where they just dark-skinned sailors traveling the same course he was on turned into pirates by his imagination whatever the truth he said that just then the wind freshened suddenly breaking the boom of the Arab felucca Slocum kept heading for South America and his greatest adventures yet the first was a grounding off the coast of Uruguay which almost resulted in a drowning Slocum may have been the greatest sea captain of the 19th century he may have been the greatest sailor of the 20th century but he did not know how to swim few sailors did especially sailors from those cold Canadian waters a gaucho tried to make off with both the spray and it's tender Slocum had to fight to get them back but the greatest adventure and the greatest accomplishment of the voyage was Slocum's passage through the stormy waters of the Straits of Magellan in southern Patagonia he was blown out back Larry Tyler is a British sailor and filmmaker single-handedly recreating Slocum's passage to the southern tip of South America following the wake of Joshua Slocum on the spra the Dove and I we sailed a similar route from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and then from Buenos Aires out into the sea encountering the same kind of condition see he had all the head wings and we beat out two days and two nights into nasty sharp seas the whole place is like a graveyard two ships then once we were out at sea we head itself down the Patagonian Coast awhile and forbidding country the wings just how and how and how today you could say it's the calm before the storm it's one of these dead dead calm days hardly any wind we're hardly making any headway but within an hour we could start having a snow storm in the evening it could be hailing or heavy heavy rain is the debate dramatic and wild corner of the earth it's a challenge for sailing boats to come down here nowadays but think of it a hundred years ago when Joshua Slocum was here it was even more of a challenge a most remarkable man on Valentine's Day 1896 Slocum arrived at the dusty Chilean port of Punta Arenas there in a sail loft he met an old sea captain who suggested a defense technique against the Patagonian natives then still considered very dangerous which has become the best-known story of Slocum's voyage captain Pedro assemblage gave Joshua a box of tacks and he told him to sprinkle these on the deck at night so that should any natives try and board him and kill him or take his boat they would be first stepping on the tacks and sure enough these tacks probably saved Joshua's life and'll allowed him to carry on on his single-handed round-the-world voyage although his readers responded with glee to his stories of fending off natives with carpet tacks in truth the natives and the wild nature of Patagonia changed Slocum profound it's a fact that in Magellan I let pass many ducks that would have made a good stew friendless lonesome wild straight I really had no mind to take the life of any living thing [Music] it took Slocum two months to make his way through these convoluted channels particularly the nightmarish collection of reefs rocks and islands called the Milky Way the Milky Way is considered to be the most treacherous water on the earth the story goes is that only two vessels have ever in that time any way I've ever made it through the Milky Way one was the Beagle with Darwin and a full crew and they made it during the daytime and Slocum made it through the Milky Way by himself attacking by sound at night it's just boggles my mind to think about it but I believe five attempts to get it through I remember one time he he lost 40 days he said and he said he just turned the boat around and whistled a new tune and started attack it all over again and you know that's amazing those kinds of stories are just great the three most important voyagers who came down here the first was Magellan he discovered the Straits and there had been named after him and secondly was Sir Francis Drake who sailed through the Straits from the Atlantic through to the Pacific in 16 days without any charts and thirdly and probably the most remarkable in terms of seamanship would be Joshua Slocum [Applause] then on to Huang Fernandez Island the home of the original survivor and model for Robinson Crusoe Alexander Selkirk [Music] he sat out across the Pacific he passed numerous islands but didn't stop until Samoa where he was entertained by Fanny Stevenson the widow of his hero Robert Louis Stevenson [Music] in Australia he hauled the boat out for repairs and began to give lectures with magic lantern slides Mariners like Davidson at Jones are still continuing the tradition while here in the same village hall where Slocum himself had spoken a hundred years earlier from Australia with a new set of sails given to him in Sydney he sailed to Coco's Kealing island in the Indian Ocean a passage of 2,700 miles in 23 days of which Slocum says he spent less than three hours at the wheel many scoffed at this claim indeed scoffed at his entire voyage they didn't believe he could sail alone that the boat would steer itself sailing with Sam McKinney off Vancouver aboard his northern spray talking to him at the bow with no one at the helm confirms that the spray design is mysteriously able to sail itself Slocum's voyage took so long that American newspapers began to report that he was lost at sea Slocum unaware of these obituaries blissfully sailed on in South Africa the world traveler was invited to debate the shape of the earth with the founder of the Boer Republic Paul Kruger who argued that the earth was flat Slocum took the more conventional position after Cape Town it was an easy run up the Atlantic home to America only 10,000 miles of sailing alone without a chronometer or engine and now that the goat had eaten them without charts Slocum sailed into Newport Harbor on June the 27th then he went on up to Fair Haven for a ceremonial kind of end and then went into Boston on July 4th 1898 and amazing story 46,000 miles the spanish-american war pushed news of Slocum's feet to the back pages but with the help of young Mabel Wagnalls he'd soon changed the world's knowledge of his accomplishment by working on his book for the next year and seeing it published in 1900 the reaction was immediately positive it has been republished many times in many languages Slocum wrote a classic and that classic has listed the years a century now because he says so much about what Saleen is all about the dedication of a man to its vessel dedication to learning about the sea dedication of humility to be patient and observe is the same way as to be a good writer to describe something accurately so I think that comes out you know when I often hear the quote you should write to serve rather than to impress and he is doing that he's not looking to impress you with a lot of verbiage and and flowery language he's telling the story which so clearly speaks for itself is such a wonderful theme but now he was at loose ends he was 56 he had sailed alone around the world what could he do to surpass that in 1901 Joshua Slocum late of Brier Island Nova Scotia was invited to bring his boat to Buffalo New York to the great pan-american exposition the biggest ever held he towed the spray by horse up the Erie Canal the canal built and expanded throughout the 19th century played a vital role in opening up the Midwest of America now again slow can cut a new swath being one of the very first non-commercial boats to use the canal in the way it's used today a passage for adventurers between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic and then the South Seas as can still be seen in this early motion picture tour shot by Thomas Edison the exposition was a fantastical recreation of Venetian canals and along their sides electric towers and Eskimo villages and Slocum spray while Slocum was murdered in Buffalo he printed and sold a small souvenir pamphlet describing his voyage with an autographed piece cut from the tattered mane sullied used until Australia for a Slocum aficionado to find a copy today and touched the sail that took Slocum around the world is a rare and almost awesome moment Slocum traded yarns here with Buffalo Bill Cody who brought his Wild West Show to the exposition [Music] in September President William McKinley visited the exposition boarded the spray and signed Slocum's logbook an hour later McKinley was shot to death by an anarchist Slocum was at the swearing in of the new President Theodore Roosevelt and became a good friend of the energetic and adventurous new chief the exposition is long gone but this Lake and the very wall that Slocum tied to are still there he left Buffalo for Martha's Vineyard mooring the spray here in this Harbor just like this replica a hundred years later Martha's Vineyard is a place of grand yachts grand hotels and grand houses Slocum is still remembered today though with one of the world's most overgrown and neglected memorials in Slocum's day the vineyard was a sleepy farming and fishing community Slocum tried his hand at growing hops but it was a dismal attempt to toss in the anchor didn't work within a year he was back at sea sailing for the Bahamas Jamaica and the Caymans but now the spray was beginning to look as weather-beaten as her skipper in 1908 he told President Roosevelt of his plan to sail to Venezuela up the Orinoco and onto the headwaters of the Amazon he took off into a November Gale and was never seen again he may have foundered in that game he may have fallen overboard perhaps the old girls sprung a plank but most likely one of his hated steam ships had finally caught up with him his most recent biographer and Spencer has found evidence identifying a particular Caribbean male steamer as the ship that ran old Slocum down whatever really happened it seems appropriate that the old sea-dog who loved the sea and did so much to share that love with the world should still be in and of it less appropriate to those who loved his memory as the dry language of the Dukes County Court official statement the Court finds that Joshua Slocum disappeared absconded and I've sanded himself on the 14th day of November ad 1909 disappearing under the following circumstances he sailed from Tisbury Massachusetts in the sloop spray of nine tons burden and has never been seen since and therefore the Court declares that the aforementioned be declared lost at sea and legally dead [Music] Joshua Slocum died as he lived left behind a great legacy turned his life into literature even though his last trip failed it did inspire the American president to try one of his own while his family and ancestors are buried in a forgotten family plot in a we'd covered corner of their Nova Scotia farm the legacy of Joshua Slocum now seems almost carved into the sea itself remembered by all who still go down to the sea under sail to face the elements is to be sure no light matter where the sea is in its grandest mood you must then know the sea and know that you know it and remember that it was meant to be sailed [Music] Joshua

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Published: Tue Jul 09 2019