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Imperfect Passage
- A Sailing Story of Vision, Terror, and Redemption
- Narrated by: Peter Powlus
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
Michael Cosgrove had a beautiful family, a successful career, and a lovely Southern California home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. At the age sixty, he decided to leave that all behind to sail around the world. In spite of his romanticized vision of rugged individualism and salty tales to share with his grandchildren, Cosgrove quickly realizes that sailing around the world isn’t going to be as easy as he’d imagined. From a psychotic crewmate, sleep deprivation, and mental breakdowns, to stormy weather and hallucinations, Cosgrove rides the waves, holding on as best he can to his dream of “doing something grand.” Alone, and thousands of miles away from everyone and everything he loves, he is forced to ask himself one question: What in God’s name am I doing here?
In his attempt to avoid the inevitable (growing old, weak, frail), Cosgrove runs amok. He breaks his budget to outfit the boat and then refuses to read the manuals. He enters unfamiliar harbors in the dead of night, hires a violent first mate, and sails headlong into ferocious storms. In the midst of his adventures, he longs for the simpler days when his four daughters were still children, when his first marriage was still intact, and when his future still seemed bright and expansive. Though driven by scenes of sheer terror, absurd folly, and deep inner searching, Cosgrove keeps his sense of humor throughout his harrowing journey.
Imperfect Passage is the story of one man’s perseverance against Father Time and Mother Nature, proving that with enough will, one can, in his or her own way, conquer the unconquerable.
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- Angela
- 05-08-19
Great story
A real enjoyable, funny and interesting listen. Would definitely recommend. Thank you for your great story.
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- Neil
- 29-01-22
Not the expected fairy tale ending
Stay to the end, past the (another) one man on his boat you'll be glad
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- Hephaestus
- 23-06-22
Gripping
This was a superb book , griping and addictive, I listen at work at 5am as I’m opening my school and getting it ready and the three hours each morning disappeared into an amazing adventure on the seas with the people and weathers encountered .Superb thanks MC and PW for narration
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- Lawrie Jenkins
- 09-01-22
Hard work for an armchair sailor
I found this book a little repetitive yet awe inspiring at times too. Found I had to keep listening right to the end.
Have never sailed a boat in my life, but felt I had been given an extreme sailing workout!
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- George Hannah
- 17-11-21
A good story, a terrible sailor
This is a decent story and the Michael is quite relatable and likeable, even if he is also somewhat infruiriating at times. I liked this book but it wasn't one of the greats.
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- Boatshed Neil
- 07-08-21
it still works for sailors
despite some necessary drama on the water front, I loved the human honesty and life changing message. see you on the water Michael ? (hopefully) ;)
loved it. great work. Neil
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- Mr P A Hart
- 16-03-22
True account of where fear of age drives you beyond limits.
Good story and good verbalisation by the reader. It even gripped my 13 year old step son. It’s well written, considered and has many grains of truth encapsulated in its words and descriptions are refined and give a good sense of what the reality was like as well as the inner demons and angels of a personal journey to find what really matters in life.
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- William Nelson
- 04-12-18
Good story, generally well told
Enjoyed this book. s few inconsistencies that detract from the story. would have benefited from a better proof reading. would recommend rhough
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- Julia
- 18-11-17
What a trip!
From minute 1, this book has amazed me in every possible sense a book can do. The writer, Michael Cosgrove, tells his story in such an easy, fluent, delightful and funny way that I couldn’t stop listening till the end (applauses to the narrator too!). His travels were full of unbelievable and breathtaking stories, and it made laugh out loud, cry, expect the better and the worse and I feel I just want to star all over again. Thank you captain and thank you the narrator for the one of the best books I’ve ever came across!
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- Sofie
- 20-04-18
Fantastic must read
This is by far the best book I have listened to. It was so interesting and at times very funny. The storey of Michael Cosgrove sailing the Pacific sea on his own life journey was a real insight to how a person sometimes needs to follow their dream. I would certainly recommend, even to those like myself who has never really spent so much time at sea.
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