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"Yachting Monthly's" Further Confessions: Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins (World of Cruising)
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Product Description
'Worse things happen at sea', they say. And it's a saying borne out by this second anthology of mishaps and disasters afloat, collected from the 'Confessional' pages of Yachting Monthly magazine. For two decades, hundreds of humbled yachtsmen have clamoured to confess their most embarrassing moments afloat for the amusement and enlightenment of their fellow sailors. 'The Confessional' is one of the first pages that readers turn to each month. Every sailor who ever went to sea has a skeleton hiding in his cupboard, an incident he would rather forget but which preys on his conscience. Over the years, 'The Confessional' has witnessed it all: shipwrecks, mutiny, collisions, strandings hair-raising, hilarious misadventures, stranger than any fiction. We have laughed with them, learned from them, sympathised and chuckled in a 'holier than thou' fashion, but the one thing these pieces have in common is their insight into why and how their perpetrators 'got it wrong'. Enhanced by Mike Peyton's marvellously poignant cartoons, this book is a must for any boater afloat or ashore. Read on, from the comfort of a safe berth
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #17426 in Books
- Published on: 2002-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'Highly recommended' Yachting World 'Very entertaining' East Anglian Times
About the Author
Paul Gelder is Deputy Editor of Yachting Monthly magazine and has sailed thousands of miles in a variety of boats. His sailing assignments have taken him from above the Arctic Circle, to Tahiti and Bora Bora in the South Pacific, Mexico's Sea of Cortez, and much of the Caribbean and Mediterranean. He has written two books on round the world yacht races (The Loneliest Race and InterSpray's Race Around the World) as well as sailing 5,000 miles as crew on one race leg to Brazil. As editor of Yachting Monthly's Confessions and Sailing Skills sections, he is no stranger to misfortune afloat. His own boat, appropriately called Phoenix, is a 30ft trimaran which was rebuilt after being declared a 'total loss' by the insurers when she was blown ashore in a gale in Chichester Harbour.
