Congrats! I recently read 'A world of my own', a chap sailed from the UK down the atlantic, across the southern indian ocean, south pacific, cape horn, and back up the atlantic to the UK in a 32' ketch single handed in 1968, I recommend you read it if you haven't! Happy sailing. Stay safe.
EDIT: Heres the book on Amazon, theres copies in the UK for 1p.

u/V10L3NT · 1 point r/sailing

Glad to be able to share.

If you find the story of Moitessier's race interesting, Robin Knox-Johnston provides a really interesting counterpoint with "A world of my own"

He is the British stalwart plucky "stiff upper-lip" counterpoint to the frenchman's "I go because i must and the rest will happen"

"A Voyage for Madmen" is a great summary of all the viewpoints in that race, which includes a lot of great info from Nigel Tetley, and Donald Crowhurst (subject of the Deep Water documentary) whose books I haven't yet collected.

Another great collection I have surround the Vendee Globe race of 96-97 include "Godforsaken Sea" as a good overall coverage of the race which included the death of a competitor, and miraculous rescue of another by his fellow racer Pete Goss, whose "Close to the wind" is another plucky british tale of plugging on against all odds.

I'd love to see what you finally submit, so if you want to throw it up somewhere when you're done, pass along a link.

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