Anne Davidson,firtst woman to cross the Atlantic solo

[Wansworth]

Re reading her book about her trip from Plymouth to the West Indies and I must admit it was quite calamitous at the beginning and no explanation of the water sloshing about over the floor boards…..could it have been a leaking water tank?

 

[LittleSister]

Probably not as calamitous as the trip she described in her book Last Voyage (the only one I've read):

'. . . the main part of the book, and the title, is about their ill-fated purchase of Reliance.
The boat, which was alongside at Fleetwood, Lancashire, required more refurbishment than anticipated and Frank was unwilling to compromise on standards. Debts grew, and with a writ of repossession about to be nailed to the mast, Ann and Frank hurriedly set sail for the West Indies, with the boat unfinished, and into the teeth of a gale. After intense hardship, first blown down the Irish Sea then to the East along the English Channel, they were wrecked on the east side of Portland Bill on 4 June 1949, where he drowned. Ann Davison managed to scramble ashore.'
Ann Davison - Wikipedia