Caterpillar Seas: A True Story

It is a fascinating account of youthful involvement with crime, and its inevitable consequences; a gripping true story about a young man who stole a yacht and sailed into the Pacific In 1973, a young South African named Rob Fridjhon was travelling in America, got involved with Russian gangsters and witnessed a murder in Los Angeles, which caused him to flee - by stealing a yacht. He set off into the Pacific, enduring storms, loneliness, dwindling supplies and a dismasting, before finally crashing the yacht onto a reef in the Fiji islands.