Tristan Jones

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Tristan Jones (1987)

Tristan Jones (born  May 8, 1924 in Liverpool - †  June 21, 1995 ; real name: Arthur Jones ) was an author and navigator who wrote numerous books and articles, most of them in the first person, about sailing. His stories are, in the tradition of the Welsh stories teller , a mixture of fact and fiction , so are hardly known details of his early life.

Life

Much of the life of Arthur aka Tristan Jones is unknown and not proven. What seems certain is that he was born illegitimate to a working class woman in 1929 and grew up mostly in orphanages without much schooling. In 1946 he joined the Royal Navy and served there for 14 years. Then he bought a sailboat that tried smuggling of whiskey and sailed and lived in the Mediterranean . In 1982 his left leg had to be amputated, in 1991 his right. He spent the last years of his life in Phuket , Thailand, where he also converted to Islam .

In his works, on the other hand, he tells how he left school at the age of 14 to join a barge. He spends most of his life at sea as a daring sailor always looking for new adventures at sea. Jones thus covers more than 450,000 nautical miles . Most of it alone on his sailing boat "The Sea Dart" . He crossed the Atlantic at least 20 times (9 times alone).

The Sea Dart

The "The Sea Dart" is the sailboat, with Tristan Jones his entire adventure has experienced. It was built in England in 1960, had a variety of previous owners, and was purchased by Tristan Jones in 1973.

Fonts

Bust designed by William Barth Osmundsen (1987).
  • Ice! , German translation by Beate Kammler : Caught in the ice: alone on an arctic course , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1981, ISBN 3-7688-1268-5
  • The incredible voyage ( The incredible voyage ) Pietsch, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-50346-8
  • Adventure of a wayward sailor ( Saga of a Wayward Sailor ), Pietsch, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-50358-1
  • Himmel, Sturm und Takelgarn ( Seagulls in my Soup ), Pietsch, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-50370-0
  • Flotsam. Stranded in New York ( Adrift ), Pietsch, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-50382-4
  • Stuck. Captured on the Main (The Improbable Voyage), Pietsch, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-50412-X
  • Heart of Oak (English speaking)
  • Outward Leg (English speaking)
  • A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea (in English)
  • Dutch Treat (English speaking)
  • Somewhere East of Suez (English speaking)
  • To Venture Further (in English)
  • Yarns (English speaking)
  • One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing (in English)
  • A Star to steer her by (in English)
  • Encouters of a wayward Sailor (in English)
  • Aka (English speaking)

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personal data
SURNAME Jones, Tristan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Arthur (real name); Jones, Ali (after converting to Islam)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh author and navigator
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1995