Father and son alternate writing chapters about their sailing trip together around Cape Horn and their relationship generally. A great story, quick read.

If you like reading stories about the sea, sailing, and relationships, this is great. Wm F Buckley's son recommended it in his memoir losing Mum and Pop. Told from two points of view, father and son, role reversals interesting.

Enjoyable. I gravitate toward the man vs. nature theme but this one, despite taking on something as monumental as rounding Cape Horn .......that part of the story is merely background to the dynamic of the father and son relationship. A story that will make you think of your own relationships.

Mielenkiintoinen isän ja pojan tarina Cap Hornin ympäripurjehduksesta. Kirjan kahdella kirjoittajalla oli selkäesti omat äänensä ja tarinansa. Kirjan loppu tuli vähän juosten. Ensimmäiset 250 sivua kesti päästä Cap Hornille ja kotiin tultiinkin sitten 70 sivussa. Tuntuikin määränpää olisi ollut tärkeämpi kuin koko matka. Silti mielenkiintoinen teos, joka opetti purjehtimisesta tietämättömälle paljon.

A father and son sail a 25–foot boat 17,000 miles for the main purpose of experiencing a voyage around Cape Horn, arguably the most lethal waters on the planet.
This is a cool story, told in turns by the father and the son, each from viewpoints on the opposite sides of the twenty–some years between them. Like all good adventure stories, the adventure itself — in this case, the sailing — is only the base, the platform for the story written between the lines. This book describes well voyaging on a small boat (they moved about the inside of the heaving boat by grabbing rails and pushing against bulkheads, sort of like “faster–motion astronauts in a zero–gravity capsule”), but it also describes what it can mean to be a father and son and a family.

I was gifted this book for Christmas, and the development of a man's relationship with his son, set among the sailing I love, really wrapped up a beautiful story for me.

I read this in the late 90's. Excellent father son adventure.

Terrified of the water but I am drawn to books written about the adventures of others. Haven't been able to get through Moby Dick yet and really do not want to, simply because it was required reading in school.:) But My Old Man ... was enthralling.

interesting read on a good father son adventure