Head Winds Met For 500 Miles
(From SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER)
ABOARD GYPSY MOTH IV, April 17.
My position at 10.20 p.m. G.M.T. is 13.07 degrees south, 23.22 degrees west. On April 14 I reached the south-west trade winds, and I thank heaven for that.
I have had tough sailing for the last 1000 miles. For four days I was headed by north or north-east gales: three times I turned and ran downwind because of vicious seas. Any gale is depressing, but I loathe running over my tracks back towards the Cape Horn at eight knots. I reckon I was beating into head winds for 500 miles, and I was very .depressed.
I was extremely pleased when I crossed my outward track on April 11 and I had sailed round the globe. I had tried to circumnavigate it in 1931 in my seaplane but failed, and I had always hoped to do this one day. (Copyright Sir Francis Chichester and The Times Newspapers, Ltd.)
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 15
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