The Alpha Boats Odyssey

The Alpha Boats Odyssey

Robert Murray

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Editorial:
Advantage Media Group (IPS)
Año de edición:
2006
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9781599320205
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This is a true story of adventure set against a backdrop of the sea, a money making scheme, and international intrigue. There was money to be made in West Africa. The Government of Ghana needed commercial fishing vessels. Acquire and deliver a couple of boats. How hard could that be? Bob Murray and three of his sons soon found out. In this powerful and intriguing true story you’ll be drawn into the story, and perhaps live the adventure for yourself,A father and three of his sons set out on what was advertised to be the adventure of a lifetime, In that, they were not disappointed. But the adventure part, at times was more than they had bargained for. It was the start of the 1975 hurricane season, and they were sailing up the barrel of the Atlantic’s most prolific creators of devastating winds and seas. Veritable mountains of water came crashing down on their small wooden craft. They could feel these mountains building like a voltanic precursor to an eruption The common thought was, ’Is this the one that flips us over, and we meet our maker in some watery habitat?'Two storms at sea and a fire below decks added unscheduled excitement At the time of the fire, the nearest charted land mass was over 1,000 miles ahead, the nearest uncharted mass was just over a mile away.straight down! That thought did not ease the minds of any on board. But when they landed in Tema, Ghana, the seaport for Accra, the boys were asked, 'Would you go again?' Their voices rose in unison, 'You bet, when do we leave?' 3

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