Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly

Yachting Monthly's Confessions (eBook, ePUB)

Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins
Illustrator: Peyton, Mike

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine.

For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world
about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful
blunders, and the cream of the crop are collected together here in the
hope that the rest of us can learn from their mistakes instead of our
own - or at least have a good laugh at their expense!

Shipwrecks, strandings, mutiny, getting locked in the lavatory...
you couldn't make them up. Counted among the contributors are no less
than four former editors of Yachting Monthly, which goes to prove that worse things really do happen at sea!

Accompanied by cartoons from the inimitable Mike Peyton, this collection deserves a place at every bunkside.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472901675
• Artikelnr.: 38406763

Autorenporträt

Paul Gelder, editor of Yachting Monthly for 10 years - from 2002 to February 2012 - is no stranger to disaster at sea. He has edited two best-selling anthologies of true-life sailing disasters, Total Loss, plus its companion volume, Sunk Without Trace (Adlard Coles Nautical). He has also written three books on round the world sailing events, including The Loneliest Race, covering the 1994-95 BOC Around Alone race, and Gipsy Moth IV: A Legend Sails Again (Wiley Nautical). He was presented with the Ocean Cruising Club's Award of Merit in 2005 for launching the campaign to save Sir Francis Chichester's famous ketch Gipsy Moth IV, which sailed around the world on the 40th anniversary of her first epic voyage.