Career
This book primarily contains accounts of his early sailing days on his sailboats Wanderer and Wanderer II from England to Ireland and Scotland, and on two other small sailing boats, Dyarchy and Tern World War II The 1977 edition includes the story of the Hiscocks" first ocean voyage, a prelude to their later and longer world cruises on subsequent sailboats, all named Wanderer. The account of the Hiscocks" first world circumnavigation (1952–1955) was told in Around the World in Wanderer III. Wanderer III, a 30-foot (91 m) Laurent Giles sloop, carried the couple around the world via the tropics at a time when few people were cruising the world for pleasure on small sailboats. The voyage and book accorded them a degree of popular celebrity, and was the first of their three circumnavigations.
lieutenant was also the start of a series of books detailing their later voyages on their sailboats Wanderer III, Wanderer IV and Wanderer V. The trips in Wanderer III, together with previous voyages, provided much technical information for his technical how-to volumes on small boat sailing and ocean cruising, Cruising Under Sail and Voyaging Under Sail (later combined and published as Cruising Under Sail).
Eric Hiscock died on board Wanderer V in Whangarei, New Zealand in 1986. Susan Hiscock died in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight in 1995.