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Voyage of the Suzy Wong Kindle Edition

by Steve Jackson (Author), Paul Cardoza (Author), George Todd (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
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FOUR GUYS, A DOG, AND A BOAT…
... and 26,000 miles of high seas between Hong Kong and Miami.

THE YEAR WAS 1960. William Holden was the latest cinema heartthrob and his movie “The World of Suzie Wong” was all the rage. It was also the year four young men hatched a plan to sail halfway around the world. Never mind that they weren’t sailors or that one of them couldn’t swim. These four young men jumped at the chance to prove something to the world and to themselves.

Armed with not much more than a forty-one-foot Sparkman & Stephens wooden sailboat, a Chinese Chow puppy, and all the gumption needed to survive dysentery, monsoons, and equipment failures, Steve, Walter, George, and Paul christened their newly-built vessel the Suzy Wong and set sail for the adventure of a lifetime. “Voyage of the Suzy Wong” is the true story of four young men who relied on the kindness of strangers, their own resourcefulness, and just plain luck to survive a world-embracing journey and live their dream.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00IUY0NH8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Windy City Publishers; 1st edition (March 6, 2014)
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BIOGRAPHY – STEPHEN O. JACKSON - Managing Author

Stephen Oliver Jackson was born in New York City.  His parents met in 1932, during the early days of flying, while participating in an air derby from New York to Miami.  Six months later they were married. Steve must have inherited the “adventure gene” as he has been adventuring most of his life. His education included a degree from Yale University in engineering and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Directly after Yale, Steve served his two-year ROTC commitment assigned to a Naval base in the Philippines. From there he helped plan and build a 41-foot sailboat in Hong Kong. In 1960, he set sail with three other ex-servicemen on a 26,000-mile storied journey home to America. Steve later became the Chief Financial Officer of the Baha’i National Center in Wilmette, Illinois. Following that position he became a consultant for USAID, The World Bank, and The Experiment for International Living—all projects in Africa. For the next five years Steve worked for the People’s Republic of China as a professor at Nanjing University. Starting in 2009 Steve, along with his sailing mates, pooled the recollections of their sailing adventure into a narrative story, Voyage of the Suzy Wong, to be published in the spring of 2014.

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Bob Jackson
5.0 out of 5 stars Retire first Work later
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2014
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Book review – Voyage of the Suzy Wong

Occasionally in my conversations with friends in the work-a-day world I hear the comment that all of us should start our careers by retiring and then finish up by working. This sounds like a great idea but the only ones I know who have actually done it are Steve, Walter, George and Paul in their Voyage of the Suzy Wong. At the time I did not realize the immensity of the project but with the benefit of a few more gray hairs I now consider it the ultimate adventure and perhaps borderline foolhardy. The same trip today would be almost impossible without the aid of GPS, weather fax and side-band radio.

At any rate, it all ended well and now it’s a great story. My favorite part was the comment by Steve attributing his undefeated wrestling season in college to learning to fight with his brother (me) when he was growing up. My first recollection of the adventure was a newspaper article stating the most experienced sailor was Steve whose nautical expertise came from sailing on local Lake Waccabuc. The next report was an uneventful crossing of the Indian Ocean which I assumed was like a big mill pond. Only this spring when I saw search missions for Flight 370 did I gain appreciation for conditions in the “roaring 40’s”. Those waves were taller than the length of the Suzy Wong.

After their adventure the crew went on to successful business careers. The boat is being lovingly restored and we are all looking forward to the re-launching ceremony this summer.
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Spencer Jackson
5.0 out of 5 stars You're not going to want to put the book down
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2014
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Through the years I have been on a number of adventures with my older brother: Treks through the White Mts., ski trips, and driving cross country in a '46 Plymouth. Like my nephew Kieth, there are many things I didn't know about my brother that were revealed in his book.
What impressed me was the way Steve vividly portrayed his voyage through the eyes of the world of 1960-61. What they did certainly couldn't be done today. The four "drylanders" built from scratch a world class 39' Yawl with the help of the natives of Hong Kong. They set sail for the first time on a vast ocean. They were helped out along the by people of many nationalities. What impressed me their navigation. How do you find your way through thousands of miles of ocean without GPS? Almost nothing that happened during the voyage was planned. Innovation to cope with unforeseen circumstances was certainly the rule.
They sailed to places you wouldn't dream of going today. Imagine sailing around the Horn of Africa before pirates infested the waters around Yemen or tacking up the Red Sea and going through the Suez Canal.
What made this book exciting was the fact the trip was portrayed in a way that you had a real feel for the people and the time in a direct and concise way. Describing this 50 years later gives the reader a view for the way the world has both changed and stayed the same. I too look forward to seeing Suzy sail again.
Spencer Jackson
Wolfeboro, NH
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Chris in Northbrook
5.0 out of 5 stars True Life Experience Adventure
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2014
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The key word in the heading is "adventure." Never having adventured much myself, I've been interested in adventure stories since my youth. I particularly like to read a true story. For example, I loved the book about the journey to Antarctica by ship and over land of Ernest Shackleton and 27 men beginning in August 1914. Their survival was deemed practically miraculous.

The "Voyage of the Suzy Wong" takes place pretty much through warm ocean waters so there's no danger of freezing to death as there was for Shackleton's group.. However, the four sailors on the Suzy Wong possessed little experience handling sailboats and had not ever done so in ocean waters. The distance they intended to cover would seem impossible to many people. They didn't know the odds they faced and, as intrepid as they were, they might well have not had the boat built and made the voyage if they had been able to foresee the vicissitudes that would beset them. To say that they very nearly lost their lives a number of times is not overstating.what happened. If you like "edge-of your-seat" entertainment, this book is for you. Not only that, these four guys will endear themselves to you as you follow their vast undertaking. The anecdotes that are recounted give you an insight into each one's character.

Christine Hennig
Northbrook, Illinois
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John H. VanRenterghem
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing voyage of the Suzy Wong!
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2014
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading about this sailing adventure that took place over 50 years ago. This is a well written book and fun to read. You feel as though you’re a 5th member of the crew and have great respect for the hardships they managed and worked through. There are numerous life lessons in this book; courage, economy, teamwork, negotiating, setting goals, rest and relaxation, friendship, love, and of course hard work. The author provides ample detail of the central characters through the many interesting vignettes and funny stories. You can see that each crew member brought different qualities that were necessary for the team as a whole to successfully complete their voyage.

It’s interesting to note how different times were back in the very early 60's. At so many points during their adventure, there was much goodwill from people ready and willing to offer assistance to whatever the crew needed to get back on their journey. Also, I wonder how viable/safe it would be to take this same route today - with increased pirating along the coast of Somalia and the political tensions rocking our post 9-11 world? Great book and highly recommend to anyone interested in adventure!!
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Steven M Irby
1.0 out of 5 stars Cannot change font. This version is a photocopy of the book, not digital text.
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2021
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Cannot change font. This version is a photocopy of the book, not digital text. Very difficult to read on a Kindle.
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Michael P Erb
5.0 out of 5 stars A nice way to escape into a globe-trotting voyage
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2021
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I mostly read this book while flying home for the holidays, and it was great to go away with the four main guys on the ship for a world-spanning voyage. They go through storms, calm weather, stifling heat, and visit exotic locations. I've always loved ships but doubt I'll ever do a trip like this one (it sounds like quite a feat!), so this was a nice way to join the journey.
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