Trimaran Solo: The Story of the Victress’ Circumnavigation and Last Voyage

First edition, first impression.  176pp, with numerous black and white illustrations and figures in text and a central section of colour plate illustrations. Blu cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed, gently rounded on corners and spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original illustrated, glossy dust jacket, not price clipped, a little shelf worn and gently bumped on extreme edges; a tad toned on the interior.

Nigel Tetley’s account of his solo circumnavigation of the world in his yacht Victress in 1968-69; the fattest yacht circumnavigation, the first trimaran to go around the world and the first multihull vessel to around the Horn – and yet he did not win the prize, with the yacht sinking just 1100 miles from the home port of Plymouth.