Little ship of fools : 16 rowers, 1 improbable boat, 7 tumultuous weeks on the Atlantic by Charles Wilkins

★★★½

GENRE: Memoir
SUBJECT: effort to row across the Atlantic
Setting: Atlantic Ocean
CHARACTERS: Charles Wilkins, Tom Butscher
DATE READ: June 13 - June 30
NO. OF PAGES: 302
Challenges: 75, Category, TIOLI ,  GEOCAT
SOURCE: Public Library

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Turn your imagination on.  Picture yourself on a rowboat designed like a catamaran with an area of 8 small bunks and 8 rowing positions.  There is one very small cabin for eating.  You are assigned a bunk and a rowing position and for the next 7 WEEKS you will row for two hours, sleep/eat for two hours, and repeat.  You will continue in this sequence even when your body is exhausted, you have no food and you will begin to wonder if you will ever see land again.

A great adventure story.