The Missing Centimetre

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Schulz, Leon
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978095627609
Outworn Creed
2009
271
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J43
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19/05/2010

Book Review CoverPrice: £25.00

If you lay a measuring tape on the floor and think of each centimetre as a year of your life, cutting out one centimetre makes little difference to the overall length.  But if the ‘missing centimetre’ becomes a year’s sabbatical to sail with your wife and two children from Sweden to the Caribbean and back, it can change your whole life.   The Missing Centimetre sets out to answer the questions of every armchair sailor: what would it be like to sail the Atlantic, what would it be like to sell one’s house, leave one’s job, take one’s children away school and friends, and set sail?  Beautifully produced on high quality paper with superb colour photographs and written with an easy flowing style, the book describes the human experience of such an adventure, the added intensity of the highs and lows of life at sea, the special bonds of friendships with others on their own journeys, the struggles to keep up their children’s schoolwork, the fears of their first Atlantic crossing, and the quiet confidence gained from the experience.  Apart from a detailed appendix on the equipment installed on their 40 ft. Hallberg-Rassy, and a practical footnote to each chapter, this is not a technical manual.   Instead, with the author’s gift for painting vivid word pictures, the reader is taken along on their voyage and gains both inspiration and one family’s answer to the questions – why sail the oceans and what is it like?

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