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Corrections 2008

 

Endpapers: route maps of Jimmy Cornell’s various voyages. Route marked in green is of Aventura III, not Aventura IIII.

 

149 The compass rose at Sagres is intersected by forty, not thirty lines.

 

219 Photo caption: George Town

       Aventura III’s anchor winch is a vertical-type

 

279, 280 The correct name is Moe Noe Bay

 

304 The correct name in both the photo caption and text is: Port Refuge

 

323 The Tropic of Capricorn was crossed on the way to New Caledonia

 

325 Vanuatu consists of 83 islands

 

325 The correct spelling of the pass leading to Port Moselle is Amedée Pass

 

335 Aventura I arrived in Vava’u in early May 1987

 

343 Aventura III’s voyage from New Zealand to Darwin took two months

 

345 Direction Island is in South Cocos

 

354 Karl Marx was born in 1818 and Friedrich Engels in 1820

 

363 The correct name of the capital of Mauritius is Port Louis

 

371 Aventura III had her standing rigging replaced in Cape Town

 

407 Muelle Deportivo in Las Palmas has about 1,000 berths

 

464, 467 The correct name of Christopher Columbus’s wife was Felipa de Perestrello

 

 

 

 

 

 

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