Bøger af Marion Solom

In many ways this is a very unlikely story. Even now after being involved for over 28 years, I still find it hard to believe it was actually done. The main idea was done plus a host of other adventures. That is not to say there weren't any problems, but one way or another we got over them and continued on. A lot can happen in 28 years. This sailing dream came out of thin air, and it required spending money and time I really didn't think I had. And, of course, how would I convince my wife of 19 years to believe I could do this? I didn't even try do that. This project I knew had to include three main points. The first point required building a steel boat from scratch and then sailing it to Norway, the birthplace of my roots. The second point was to use this boat to visit other countries before and after my visit to Norway. I was not going to do this as some kind of stunt but as a means to travel about. Thirdly, I didn't want any sponsors as they would have an agenda, and I had mine. I wanted to go where I wanted and stop when I felt like stopping. When I finally got into building and reading about boat voyaging, my heroes became Joshua Slocum, Harry Pigeon, Dwight Long, Eric & Susan Hiscocks and H.W. Tilman. They all did extensive traveling on small boats, and their adventures were so interesting to me as they took the time to stop and get to know people on their travels. Before I got started, I owned only a 15-foot canoe and knew nothing of sailing or navigation, but I did have a love for the water and adventure.

Indian Summer A Sailing Adventure in Photos (blue cover) This second book of ours is a 60 page book with over 90 pictures and a condensed text of the past 28 years of boat building and ocean voyaging to Norway and other countries in northern Europe. It puts a face on the people and events we visited and wrote about in our earlier book. It's format is different from our written one. It's larger size allows us to include our pictures and use captions to explain. It is meant to be either a stand alone or a companion book to our written one. A complete written account (1986-2013) is available in the book Indian Summer A Sailing Adventure. (brown cover)

This voyage would be different from the last two in 2012 and 2013. We would be moving the boat to a different area and not returning to our "home port" in Maine. Actually our real home port is New Orleans but we haven't been back there since we sailed away in the year 2000 for Norway. Now starts a new pipe dream, sailing to the Bahamas. It will include a trip down the Eastern Seaboard, stopping at a few selected ports, until we reach Florida where we will cross over to the islands. Since I have never been there, it will be a new experience for me. I'm in no hurry to get there, so this adventure will take a few months done over a period of two years. First I plan to put together a crew to sail partway down the East Coast where I will park the boat. The next year we will finish going down the coast and cross the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas at West End where we check into customs. Once we clear customs, then on to the Berry Islands and over to Nassau. After that, we will go south to the Exumas.