Gonta
by Alex Frishberg
Price: $0.99 USD. 13720 words.
Published on July 10, 2011. .
A real-life adventure story about Alexei and Nikolai, who travel to Australia to find Gonta, a sailboat which they built with their own hands. With little money, no sailing experience and no knowledge of English, they set out on a year-long adventure of a lifetime. This is a true story of friendship, human courage and survival under extreme conditions in the freezing ocean waters.