The Joshua Slocum Society International (JSSI) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1955, of cruising sailors, writers, and people interested in the historical personage of Capt. Joshua Slocum and his legacy.
It is an organization dedicated to supporting sailboating, particularly singlehanded voyaging.
It celebrates the accommplishments of Joshua Slocum,
the first person to sail alone around the world.
Joshua Slocum born 1844, missing at sea 1909. Sea captain during the age of sail.
Joshua Slocum Society International new Official Website - November 2001.
Ted Jones, Commodore,
The Joshua Slocum Society International,
15 Codfish Hill Road Extension
Bethel, CT 06801,
USA
Telephone 203 778-9917, FAX 203 770-6617 or e-mail Ted@joshuaslocumsocietyintl.org to Ted Jones
dues $35.00 per year, local and international.
The Society's burgee (flag) is the house flag of the last commercial sailing outfit that employed Joshua Slocum.
Joshua Slocum's voyage, on the Liberdade from Brazil to the East Coast of USA has been recently recreated.
David Sinnett-Jones, of Wales, constructed a near-reproduction of the Liberdade
and sailed it half-way across the Atlantic in 1998. The voyage then
continued, following Slocum's track and recently completed the journey,
arriving in Norfolk, Virginia, USA on May, 23, 2000.
David Sinnett-Jones homepage is located at
http://www.sinnett-jones.freeserve.co.uk/index3
.html .
It contains considerable information on his life and voyages, and the current Liberdade project.
A good photo, and some information on the design followed for this Liberdade re-construction can be found at JUNK-2 on Bruce Roberts website.
Click Here for the 1998 Centennial Celebration Parade of Boats photos.
Click Here for more 1998 Centennial Celebration photos.
Click Here for a really good site describing the
Centennial Celebration.
It includes some good pictures,
excellent links and scanned images of a 1901 Sloop Spray souvenir booklet.
Click Here for Golden Circle Recognitions - recent circumnavigators
Click Here for Award Presentation Notes - Singlehanded Sailing and Hakluyt Awards
Click Here for information on Books by and About Joshua Slocum. New list of titles
Smithsonian Magazine is celebrating the accomplishment of the
first solo circumnavigation with a detailed article.
Click Here for more details on the article,
a pointer to the Smithsonian site,
and the text of an abstract of the article.
Click Here for information
on the June 1998 Centennial Celebration as it was planned.
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Click Here for Donn Slocum's new site which has society information, a fine list of sole circumnavigators, and Joshua Slocum information.
Click Here for a great Australian web site
created and maintained by K. Slack, whose father built a Spray replica and wrote an excellent book on the subject. (new site address)
Click Here
for an interesting Slocum page that includes some very interesting photos.
Sometimes this page needs to be re-loaded to come up clearly - do it - its worth the wait.
A bit of Slocum Genealogy on Donn Slocum's site.
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Information on Slocum and his vessels on this site
Click Here for more images of
the Spray.
Click Here for lines diagrams of the Spray.
Click here for information on 2 sources for PLANS for the SPRAY, as they are interpreted by a modern designer, and in a more traditional plan.
Click Here To see images of the Liberdade the boat Joshua Slocum
constructed when shipwrecked at a much earlier time,
and sailed back to USA from Brazil, with his family.
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The Circumnavigators small boat voyagers of modern times by Don Holm.
This book has a chapter on Slocum, and chapters on 38 other small boat circumnavigators.
It was originally published in 1974.
It is being converted to machine readable - HTML - format with the author's permission.
Cruising Club of America Blue Water Award Winners from 1923 - 1973.
A website on Postage Stamps celebrating circumnavigations a very interesting web site that not only shows images of the stamps, but also details the people who sailed and some of their adventures.
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