How Captain John Voss put his dugout canoe—and himself—to the ultimate ... Voss and Luxton set out for the South Pacific. Their only map was a one-sheet chart of the Pacific, and they had ...

stirred imaginations, and pushed them to excellence: their building by hand of a 20-foot canoe. The work blends the ...

for only they had the canoes and navigational skills needed to push so far into the Pacific. The gaps between islands widen greatly in the eastern Pacific and the prevailing winds become less and ...

to the Pacific Ocean. Knowing he'd regret it if he said no, Mitchell, who was 18 at the time, set sail for his very first outdoor expedition, down a river — in a wooden canoe. The adventure he ...