All at Sea

Twenty Years at the Helm of Tall Ships

Dominick Jones (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7580-3 (ISBN)

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The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail. Cecilia bought the first ship, a Thames barge, for family vacations--there were six children. Dominick bought the successor, a Baltic Trader, and then found this would be his career. Twenty years elapsed between the first days of the barge and the last day of the Baltic. From knowing virtually nothing about sailing ships, the author traces getting to grips with the problems of making sails on board, skipping between sandbanks, dragging anchor, losing a mast, crossing the Atlantic, fixing self-steering, avoiding hurricanes, hauling out for repairs, and his major preoccupation: failing to sink. For 13 years, the author had no other home, and for half that period never spent a night ashore.

Dominick Jones lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface—Some Facts

Introduction

1. Buying the barge

2. And now a Baltic trader

3. Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth—Matthew 6:3

4. The Minsener Rinne

5. The ﬁrst winter in England

6. Battle hardening

7. From pillar to post

8. Who says France faces west?

9. The Royal Albert Dock

10. The Lappel Bank

11. A daft decision

12. Le dock ﬂottant

13. A ﬂying Dutchman?

14. Back to England

15. Emigration

How to do it

The Wrigley’s Chewing Gum charter

We leave France

Sailmaking

16. Traveling again

The Balearics

Leaving the Mediterranean

Atlantic crossing

The Caribbean

17. Life in America

Skidding to a stop

Hogging

A mast by the board

Hurricane Gloria

The keel shoe

The auxiliary rudder

Afterword

Glossary

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2013
Zusatzinfo	57 photos, 22 maps, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-7864-7580-3 / 0786475803
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7580-3 / 9780786475803
Zustand	Neuware