Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire

A shipwreck might end a dream of circumnavigating the globe. Not for the Wilcox family. To triumph, they 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, plus pesky bureaucrats and cockroaches as stubborn as the 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 in a trial that tests them to their limits.

• Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven Year Pacific Odyssey
• Sail With Me: Two People, Two Boats, One Adventure
• An Inexplicable Attraction: My Fifty Years of Ocean Sailing
• Escape from the Ordinary
• A Harrowing Journey: Sailing into danger
• The Next Distant Sea: The 28-foot Sailboat Atom Continues Her Second Circumnavigation
• Under the Arms of the Sky: A Sailing Adventure
• Around the World in Six Years: My mostly solo circumnavigation in a 35 foot sailboat
• Off The Grid: How I quit the rat race and live for free aboard a sailboat
• Windswept A South Pacific Sailing Adventure