Sopranino

Description:

The story of two British men, Patrick Ellam and Colin Mudie, who, in the mid-1940s, designed and had built a small sailboat, which they then used to make a transatlantic crossing. The boat, named Sopranino, was of a size much smaller than those traditionally thought of as being ocean-crossing-capable, and Ellam and Mudie's voyage was, in part, a way of proving the point that, with the right design, small, lightweight boats were capable of great things.

subjects: Sopranino (Sailboat),  Atlantic Ocean,  Ocean-crossing,  Authbiography

People: Patrick Ellam,  Colin Mudie

Places: Atlantic Ocean,  England,  Britain,  Falmouth,  France,  Ushant,  Ile D'Yeu,  La Rochelle,  Santander,  Ferrol,  Coruña,  Lisbon,  Portgual,  Spain,  C. Da Roca,  C. St. Vincent,  Casablance,  Morocco,  Agadir,  Canary Islands,  Las Palmas,  Barbados,  Tobago,  Trinidad,  Carriacou,  Grenada,  St. Vincent,  St. Lucia,  Martinique,  Pigeon Island,  Dominica,  Guadeloupe,  Antigua,  St. Kitts,  Anguilla,  Virgin Islands,  San Juan,  Alta Vela Rock,  Jamaica,  Kingston,  Isle of Pines,  Neuva Gerona,  Havana,  Miami,  Jacksonville,  Charleston,  Wilmington,  Norfolk,  Hampton,  Annapolis,  Cape May,  Manasquan Inlet,  Sandy Hook,  New York

Times: 1949-1950