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THE FIVE-YEAR VOYAGE: EXPLORING LATIN AMERICAN COASTS AND RIVERS

Stephen Ladd, Seekers Press (Published 5/4/22)

Stephen Ladd previously spent three years living and exploring solo in a 12ft homebuilt dinghy. When the wanderlust, an adapted Sea Pearl 21. Having travelled from Florida to Panama, they added a Honda 2hp outboard. This enabled them to spend a further three years exploring the coastline and great rivers of South America as far as Buenos Aires. On the way they married and had a baby. This is an intensely impressive small boat voyage. It’s also grippingly readable.

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