Sailing, Yachts & Yarns

by Cunliffe, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781119992837
• ISBN10: 1119992834
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-10
• Publisher: Wiley Nautical

Summary

Sailing, Yachts and Yarns is a treasure chest of nautical wit and wisdom. Tom Cunliffe has chosen the very best of his writing for Yachting Monthly magazine to ensure a lively mix of anecdote, opinion and instruction. Tom shares the lessons learned navigating an engineless yacht across the Atlantic with only the stars to guide him he also lets loose on the red tape and rules that he sees infringing on the freedom of the seas. There are hilarious tales take the reader on a voyage from the frozen waters of Greenland to the palm trees of the Tropics. Tom has a gift for explaining the magic of sail and his writing is a marvelous antidote to mass market commercialism that threatens to engulf sailing. This is a perfect book for dipping into to discover another gem from one of greatest sailing writers alive today.

Author Biography

Tom Cunliffe is a worldwide authority on sailing instruction and an expert on traditional sailing craft. He is the author of more than 20 books and writes for Yachting Monthly, Yachting World and SAIL magazines.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Holy cow!	p. 1
Passing it on	p. 4
Uncharted territory	p. 7
On watch for eddies	p. 10
Cunliffe's law of diminishing returns	p. 13
Together in the end	p. 16
Jonah and the wave	p. 19
Lessons learnt from a puffin	p. 22
In the drink	p. 25
Here's hoping	p. 28
Glad to be trad	p. 31
Fight for the Wight	p. 34
Join the club	p. 37
The clock is ticking	p. 40
Life is looking up	p. 43
Good, becoming poor	p. 46
Winged wonders	p. 49
Good, bad, or just unlucky?	p. 52
The sacred sound of silence	p. 55
Testing times	p. 58
Always read the label	p. 61
Where's Wallander?	p. 64
Weather or not	p. 67
Wrestling the python of modernity	p. 70
Touching the bottom	p. 73
Dead cert	p. 76
Spring fever	p. 79
Strike a light	p. 82
Russian away from freedom	p. 85
All suggestions welcome	p. 88
Spirits of the sea	p. 91
Skipping with joy	p. 94
The ability for stability	p. 97
Sheer delight	p. 100
The big bang	p. 103
A wise investment?	p. 106
Centenary celebrations	p. 109
Under pressure	p. 112
Trials and tribulations	p. 115
Troublesome seagulls	p. 118
Skip it skipper	p. 121
Feeling the pinch	p. 124
Reckoning with doubt	p. 127
For your comfort and safety	p. 130
Grief relief	p. 133
Put your money away	p. 136
Going sideways fast	p. 139
A life of luxury?	p. 142
Don't neglect your bottom	p. 145
What a stitch up!	p. 148
Don't read all about it	p. 151
Owning or bemoaning?	p. 154
Fail safe	p. 157
Fearing for steering	p. 160
Eastern delights	p. 163
Turning on technology	p. 166
A break in the weather	p. 169
Signs of the times	p. 172
If in drought…	p. 175
The perfect platform	p. 178
Don't forget your old friends	p. 181
Music to my ears	p. 184
Size matters	p. 187
The power and the glory	p. 190
Sailing through red tape	p. 193
Resisting the rising tide	p. 196
The right sort of customs	p. 199
Too much of a good thing?	p. 202
A thousand miles from land	p. 205
When plastic's not fantastic	p. 208
No cause for alarm	p. 211
The boating backbone of Britain	p. 214
Cheap and cheerful around the world	p. 217
Hearing voices	p. 220
The plastic revolution	p. 223
Clearing the pipes	p. 226
The pierhead jumper	p. 229
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