Mike Perham - Sailing the Dream - The amazing true story of the schoolboy who sailed single-handed around the world.  This is a good, inspiring book, which I am reading.  At the age of seventeen, Mike Perham joined the select band of sailors to achieve that feat.

Despite the boat's being knocked over and battered by the oceans and having to put in for damage repairs that turned the trip into a nine-month odyssey, Mike battled on, surfing down fifty-foot waves at speeds of up to 28 knots to realize his goal.

Yet through all the difficulties, Mike's positive attitude shines through.  Sailing the Dream is an inspirational and thrilling tale of adventure on the high seas, and of how you can be as big as the dreams you dare to live.

I read the above book from the local library.  What a good read.