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An ocean to cross daring the Atlantic, claiming a new life


Year: 2001
Language: english
Author: Liz Fordred
Genre: History
Publisher: International Mairine®
Edition: First
ISBN: 0-07-135504-9
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 278
Description: Paralyzed from the chest down when she was thrown from a horse at age eighteen, Liz
might have sunk into a twilight of self-pity but for her indomitable spirit. She met and married Pete Fordred, who
had been paralyzed in a car accident, and together they fought to regain the independence and selfsufficiency
they had known before their accidents.
Eventually, they formed a seemingly impossible plan: to build a sailboat, and in it, see the world. They
were disabled, intermittently broke, had never sailed, and lived in landlocked Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a country
embroiled in civil war and subject to global trade sanctions in the 1970s. But none of that would stop them.
Pete and Liz dedicated four years to building a livable, seaworthy boat from a bare hull. They
constructed decks and cabins. They installed plumbing and wiring. They fabricated metal parts they couldn't
buy, designed and built hydraulic lifts to get them on deck and below, and resolutely tackled one seemingly
insoluble problem after another. At last, they trucked their boat 1,200 miles to Durban, South Africa, where
they rigged it, learned to sail and navigate, and set forth into the vast Atlantic.
Whether battling bureaucrats, fighting seasickness and homesickness, fixing broken gear, or dragging themselves
over slippery decks in a three-day storm, Liz and Pete never exhausted their reserves of fortitude. They
endured and transcended every difficulty, countering frustration with laughter and developing an uncanny
sense of when and how to lift each other's spirits. One driving force that carried them across an ocean and into
a new life was their determination to spread a message of hope and empowerment to other people with disabilities.

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