Golden Globe Race 2018-19

The Long Way Without GPS

By: Sasa Fegic

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Golden Globe Race 2018-19: The Long Way Without GPS is not merely a chronicle of a race. It is a meditation on the human spirit tested by the sea—the kind of test that strips away comfort, technology, and pretense, and leaves only the sailor, the boat, and the long, unrelenting ocean.
In 2018, fifty years after the original Golden Globe Race first dared men to sail alone, non-stop, around the world, a new generation of sailors answered the same call. But this was no modern regatta. There were no satellites, no GPS, no weather routing. The rules were spartan. The solitude, absolute. These sailors crossed oceans with sextants, barometers, paper charts, and faith.
This isn’t a book about heroes. It’s about people who were tired of the noise and needed to vanish for a while. Some came back looking like ghosts. Some didn’t come back at all. They did it for no money, no fame, just to see if they could still bleed salt.
This is a book about that. The madness. The silence. The sea.
And how maybe, just maybe, that’s the only sane thing left.