Seraffyn's European Adventure

by Pardey, Lin; Pardey, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780964603646
• ISBN10: 0964603640
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Pardey Books

Summary

With this edition of Seraffyn's European Adventure, all four of the Pardey's classic Seraffyn tales are available in affordable paperback.Join Lin and Larry while they winter in England working to pay for the next leg of their journey into the Baltic, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany. They dealt with armed guards on the Polish waterfront who watched while the people greeted them with flowers and fruit. They weathered a fierce mast-under broach in a Baltic gale.This story ends at the gateway to the Mediterranean to be continued in Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure.

Table of Contents

Preface	13	(15)
Acknowledgements	15	(4)
Dragons and the Sea	19	(4)
Falmouth for Fun	23	(11)
A Cruise in Company	34	(7)
Of Rudders and Surveys and Ladies	41	(11)
To Find a Winter Haven	52	(9)
Winter	61	(7)
I'd Rather Go to Sea	68	(11)
Of Fogs and Fires	79	(12)
Sailing Through a Farm	91	(12)
Adventures on the Sound	103	(9)
Into the Baltic	112	(10)
Twenty Thousand Islands	122	(9)
Thirty Thousand Islands	131	(13)
Never on a Friday	144	(12)
Poland and Politics	156	(15)
Broach!	171	(7)
Looking for Work	178	(11)
A Different Kind of Weather	189	(11)
A Busman's Holiday	200	(15)
Heading for the Sun	215	(6)
The Five Rias	221	(9)
Looking for the Portuguese Trade Winds	230	(15)
Glossary	245	(68)
Appendices:
A. The Idea Is Freedom	249	(6)
B. The Small Boats	255	(52)
C. Some Thoughts on Heavy Weather	307	(6)
Afterword to the Third Edition	313