sail away

From: Daily Breeze | Date: October 29, 2005| Author: Paul Clinton, MORE SAN PEDRO | Copyright information

15One of Harry Pidgeon's final log entries from his four-year journey around the world piloting a small sailboat reads in the succinct prose of a man finishing a mighty task with a steady hand.

Pidgeon, a local navigator who sailed around the globe 80 years ago with no other passengers, writes in clipped, spare sentences in the log from Oct. 22, 1925.

"Woke up before daylight and found the wind blowing fresh and strong from the north," Pidgeon wrote. "Set a course northeast to br...

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