Award-winning author Wendy Hinman is excited to share her new book with the world.
COMING APRIL 2017
Sea Trials tells the gripping story of a family in a tireless quest to sail around the world despite daunting challenges including a shipwreck, rebuilding a boat on a remote island, and threats from wild weather, pirates, gun boats, mines and thieves, a broken rig, scurvy and starvation. Sea Trials is a timeless story of struggle in the pursuit of a dream, filled with incredible challenges, glimpses of the fascinating cultures they encounter and enough levity to keep readers of all ages hooked to a suspenseful, satisfying ending.
Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire
by Wendy Hinman, award-winning author of Tightwads on the Loose
(Genre: Travel, Biography, True-life adventure, family drama, sailing)
ISBN 978-09848350-3-4
Paperback edition 434 Pages, including photographs and a glossary
Published 2017, Salsa Press Paperback $20, eBook $5.99
This gripping story will appeal to readers of all ages: adults, young adults and even kids.
The full description:
In 1973, the Wilcox family sets off to sail around the world aboard the 40-foot sailboat, Vela. Thirteen months later, they are shipwrecked on a coral reef, with surf tearing a huge hole in the side of their boat.
After years invested in saving money, preparing the boat, and learning to navigate by the stars, parents Chuck and Dawn refuse to give up. Fourteen-year-old Garth is determined to continue, while eleven-year-old Linda never wanted to go in the first place. Can they overcome the emotional, physical and financial challenges to transform from castaways into circumnavigators?
To triumph, these pioneers must rebuild their boat on a remote Pacific island. Damage sustained on the reef and a lack of resources haunt them the rest of the way around the world as they face daunting obstacles, including wild weather, pirates, gun boats, mines and thieves and pesky bureaucrats and cockroaches as stubborn as this family. Without a working engine and no way to communicate with the outside world, they struggle to reach home before their broken rig comes crashing down and they run out of food on a trial that tests them to their limits.
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Advance Reviews:
“In a time before cell phones and laptops, the Wilcox family set out to sail around the world, but after a shipwreck, their adventure takes a dramatic detour. Thrilling, poignant, and hilarious moments surface as this family struggles to cope with each other, repair the wreck and most of all, to keep going. The only thing missing are recipes for their extreme-budget meals!” Debra Daniels-Zeller author of The Northwest Vegetarian Cookbook
“A satisfying read about the costs and rewards of human endeavor and the effects they have on a family.” Jan Burak Schwert, author of Geezers’ Guide to the Galaxy: A Lifetime of Travel Encounters
“A nail-biting adventure story with thought-provoking lessons for today’s sailors.”
–Elsie Hulsizer, author of Voyages to Windward and Glaciers, Bears and Totems
“Hinman has written a compelling story of a family’s quest to sail around the world, a trip that starts with equal parts of hope and hubris and becomes a survival tale as the family surmounts one obstacle after another to keep their ship afloat.” Sharon L. Morris, Adventure Travel Writer
