Ship

Planted 02026-01-19

The will to sail.

Shackleton’s Endurance

We have been compelled to abandon the ship, which is crushed beyond all hope of ever being righted, we are alive and well, and we have stores and equipment for the task that lies before us. The task is to reach land with all the members of the Expedition. It is hard to write what I feel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_(1912_ship)

The Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice, stranding 28 men. Shackleton then sailed a 22-foot lifeboat 800 miles across the world’s roughest ocean and crossed unmapped mountains to get help. Every crew member survived.

The Kon-Tiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition

Thor Heyerdahl built a balsa wood raft using pre-Columbian techniques and sailed 4,300 miles across the Pacific to prove ancient peoples could have made the voyage. Everyone thought he’d sink. He didn’t.

Joshua Slocum’s Spray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray_(sailing_vessel)

A 51-year-old sea captain rebuilt a derelict oyster boat and became the first person to sail solo around the world. From 1895 to 1898.