| Introduction | [v] | |
| 1. | THE RISE OF THE PHOENIX | [1] |
| “Between a dream and a deed lie the doldrums.” | ||
| 2. | PREPARATIONS FOR A VOYAGE | [20] |
| “Cruising is walking, talking, buying, scrounging ... but cruising is also sailing.” | ||
| 3. | FROM JAPAN TO HONOLULU | [39] |
| “The long shakedown ... a seven-week course in How to Sail.” | ||
| 4. | ON TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC: FROM HAWAII TO TAHITI | [61] |
| “Banzai!... Banzai!... Banzai!” | ||
| 5. | TAHITI AND THE ISLANDS UNDER THE WIND | [81] |
| “Money? What I do with money?” | ||
| 6. | WESTWARD THROUGH THE SOUTH SEAS: RAROTONGA, SAMOA, FIJI | [100] |
| “A broad reach, a quiet sea, a full moon....” | ||
| 7. | DOWN UNDER: NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA | [115] |
| “Ah-h-h, yes-s-s!...” | ||
| 8. | —AND BACK UP: THE GREAT BARRIER REEF | [133] |
| “Better men than we had come to grief....” | ||
| 9. | INTO INDONESIA: THURSDAY ISLAND TO BALI | [151] |
| “Our life at sea was teaching us....” | ||
| 10. | BALI, JAVA, THE KEELING-COCOS | [169] |
| “A sense of uneasy anticipation....” | ||
| 11. | ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN: COCOS TO DURBAN | [189] |
| “You have seen people of all sorts. Makes my mouth water....” | ||
| 12. | SOUTH AFRICA: BEAUTIFUL, UNHAPPY LAND | [207] |
| “What will you do when that day comes?” | ||
| 13. | ACROSS THE ATLANTIC THE LONG WAY: CAPE TOWN TO NEW YORK CITY | [225] |
| “Beautiful night, new moon, slow progress, who cares?” | ||
| 14. | EVERY KIND OF CRUISING: NEW YORK TO PANAMA, BY THE CORKSCREW ROUTE | [247] |
| “A man must stand up for what he believes.” | ||
| 15. | GALÁPAGOS: HOME OF THE LAST PIONEERS | [267] |
| “Those delicate souls whose coffee must be just so....” | ||
| 16. | BACK TO HAWAII | [286] |
| “How come change ya mind?” | ||
| 17. | THE LAST LEG: HONOLULU TO HIROSHIMA | [297] |
| “Of course, there were a couple of incidents.” | ||
| INDEX | [305] | |
ILLUSTRATIONS
(between pages [182] and [183])
Map of the journey around the world
The Phoenix under full sail in the waters off Hawaii
In port, Wellington, New Zealand
Arrival in Honolulu, 1954
Japan, buying scrap iron to use as inside ballast
The timber is cut
Shaping the hull