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Outward Leg Jones, Tristan

After seven years ashore and having had his left leg amputated, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea, hoping to inspire other handicapped people In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out from San Diego in a 36foot trimaran, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail This is story of Tristans preparation for this major seagoing event and the chronicle of half of it continued in Improbable Voyage Tristan sailed down the west coast of Central America through the Panama Canal to Colombia, where he had to fight for survival among hostile natives, drug dealers and uncoooperative port officers He went on to Venezuela, Aruba and the Dominican Republic during its 1984 revolution Finally he reached New York and crossed the Atlantic to return to St Katherines Dock in London where he began his seagoing life, thirty years before