Swirly World: Lost At Sea

At 10:15am on January 19th 2022, renowned solo sailor, Andrew Fagan, set sail from Auckland, New Zealand, in his tiny 5.1m sloop-rigged plywood yacht Swirly World in Perpetuity in an attempt to set the world record for ‘The smallest boat to sail solo around the world via the Great Capes’.
The three capes being South America’s Cape Horn, Africa’s Cape of Good Hope and Australia’s Cape Leuwin.

The voyage itself was estimated to take fourteen months non-stop. Fourteen months of food, water… and resolve. Andrew first needed to cross the vast South Pacific Ocean towards Cape Horn, the stuff of myth and legend and the point at which the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet ‘ one of the most feared sea routes in the world.
Was his boat up to it? Was he up to it?

Written with his trademark humour and a solemn sense of sailing awareness, Swirly World: Lost At Sea is underpinned by Andrew’s clinical understanding of both the brutality and beauty of the sea.

This book is part sailing adventure, part memoir and is the third book in a trilogy ‘ it follows Swirly World, the Solo Voyages (2001) and Swirly World Sails South (2012).

Format: Paperback
Imprint: Small New Zealand Publisher
Publication date: 24/10/2024