Sailing Around the World the Wrong Way:Volume III

This book is the true story of one man''s attempt to live out his lifelong dream of sailing around the world to strange foreign ports in his own sailboat. Upon retiring from teaching school and farming in Michigan, Harold Knoll, Jr. left his forthcoming sedentary life, took his sailboat down to the Gulf, and headed around the world. Few men have the courage to do this, even though most of us have these dreams.

Volume I covered the first part of his journey from Michigan to Trinidad. Volume II covered his journey from Trinidad to Spain and through France to Amsterdam and Scandinavia. This Volume III covers the third part of his journey from Amsterdam around the British Isles, through the French canals to the Mediterranean, and down the coast of Italy.

Captain Knoll, a true free spirit, picks up crew as he travels along. In the process, he meets many very fascinating people and has many thrilling, and sometimes humorous, experiences. Forthcoming volumes will cover his trip through the Aegean Sea and the future trips that he takes as he proceeds on his voyage around the world the "wrong way" (against the prevailing easterly winds).

Harold Knoll, Jr.

Captain Knoll was born and raised in Michigan, where his free days were spent fishing, hunting, and boating. His dream of sailing to foreign ports developed at an early age. He learned boating and sailing on Lake Macatawa and Lake Michigan. When he retired from teaching and farming, he began to live his dream of sailing around the world. Since then, he has sailed very extensively in foreign lands. He has sailed his 32 ft. sloop over 39,000 miles at the time of writing this volume. When he is temporarily home from his travels, he lives with his sailor wife in Montague, Michigan.

Harold C. Byler, Jr.

H. C. Byler learned to sail in the 1950's in a sailboat that he and a friend designed and built. He became interested in ocean cruising and recruited friends to rent boats and sail on the North Atlantic and Long Island Sound to Nantucket. He later sailed the Northwest Pacific, the Gulf coast of Florida, the Leeward and Windward Islands of the Caribbean, the North Sea from Denmark to Norway, the Western Mediterranean, and the Aegean Sea. He has authored several previous books and is applying this experience to assisting Captain Knoll with this book. He lives in a small town in dry West Texas with his sailor wife of 48 years.