Ultimate Sailing Adventures

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Kendall, Miles
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9780470746974
Wiley Nautical
2009
204
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K1
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19/05/2010

Price: £20.00

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Under the subtitle ‘100 Extraordinary Experiences on the Water’ Miles Kendall has assembled a collection of a hundred beautiful photographs with descriptions covering everything from surviving pirates through racing around Britain to cooking flying fish. Think of a sailing adventure and somewhere it will be here! The ‘experiences’ vary from the ultimate extremes of speed and endurance to the more modest such as exploring the Swatchways or crossing the Channel. Locations range from the Solent to the Amazon and the boats themselves range between dinghies and superyachts. The descriptions are written to enthuse and bring a taste of the challenge and excitement of the adventures, however, some of the technical details must be questioned. Tall Ships are described as craft with fore-and-aft rigging whereas most people envisage such vessels as having square sails rather than Bermudan rig. The first page gives detailed metric to Imperial conversion tables and yet in the text the average speed in knots over a day is miscalculated to kilometres using the statute rather than nautical mile. The main joy of the book is, however, in the photographs, which are superb. Unfortunately they are without captions –for example in the ‘Tall Ships’ section, the beautiful Portuguese barque Sagres goes unnamed.  A book for dreaming in the cold winter evenings – or for the coffee table.  

Tony Boas

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