Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, 1900. Joshua Slocum and His Travels. Joshua Slocum. Nova Scotian childhood[edit] Joshua Slocum was born in the family's farm house in Mount Hanley and learned to read and write at the nearby Mount Hanley School. His earliest ventures on the water were made on coastal schooners operating out of the small ports such as Port George and Cottage Cove near Mount Hanley along the Bay of Fundy. When Joshua was eight years old, the Slocombe family moved from Mount Hanley to Brier Island in Digby County, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy. Slocum's maternal grandfather was the keeper of the lighthouse at Southwest Point there. His father, a stern man and strict disciplinarian, took up making leather boots for the local fishermen, and Joshua helped in the shop.
He made several attempts to run away from home, finally succeeding, at age fourteen, by hiring on as a cabin boy and cook on a fishing schooner, but he soon returned home. Early life at sea[edit] Family at sea[edit] Shortly before Christmas 1870, Slocum and the Washington put in at Sydney. Farm1.static.flickr.com/59/178107561_8a8e2d8af6. Joshua Slocum's Liberdade (Joshua Slocum 的自由號) < Joshua Slocum's Liberdade (Joshua Slocum 的自由號)[文化創意產業](2003/10/08) The Liberdade, by Joshua Slocum Illustration One is a Cabin Profile and Sail Plan of the Liberdade. Illustration Two is a Midship Section. Notice the bundles of bamboo on the gunwhales for flotation and to prevent capsizing. Some features, such as the planking, resemble a Cape Ann Dory. Others features resemble a sampan. The full text of The Voyage of the Liberdade, in plain text format: Editor's Comments: On February 28, 1886, Joshua Slocum, a Nova Scotian sailor, his American wife and their two young sons boarded the Aquidneck in New York harbor, bound for Montevideo, Uruguay.
Why did Slocum choose a modified Chinese sampan hull and a Chinese full battened junk rig for the Liberdade? "Her rig was the Chinese sampan style, which is, I consider, the most convenient boat rig in the whole world. " -- Bevin Chu.