Yachting Monthly's confessions : yachtsmen own up to their sailing sins / edited by Paul Gelder ; cartoons my Mike Peyton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gelder, Paul.

Peyton, Mike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yachting--Anecdotes.

Yachting.

Yachting--Humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Adlard Coles Nautical, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine. For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful blunders, and the cream of the crop are collected together here in the hope that the rest of us can learn from their mistakes instead of our own - or at least have a good laugh at their expense! Shipwrecks, strandings, mutiny, getting locked in the lavatory... you couldn't make them up. Counted among the contributors are

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Contents; Preface; Mike Peyton; A night encounter Bernard Kerrison; Simple sail handling Andrea Harmer; Instant chaos Mike Peyton; A very hot night Trevor Potts; A lesson from authenticity Tony James; Following orders Anna Woolf; Brake failure Mike Peyton; Heads you loos Richard Close-Smith; Trussed Andrew Bray; The human painter Geoff Pack; Putting the boot in Des Sleightholme; Boarding party James Jermain; Of gaffs and goofs John Gibb; The generation gap A K Brassington; Mid-day cowbuoy Jane Gibb; A public dilemma J P Loft

'Foreign' affairs K D SowdenHow not to drop your anchor Peter Jennings; Beware the sunny day Peter Hamilton; The creep K J Rogers; The elegant garbage collector Michael Wallace Gordon; Outboard overboard M K Tucker; Who'd have thought it? David Edmonds; Jellyfish do sting Richard Manly; Sailing looks so simple Will Garnett; Mudlarking Andy Ward; Smuggling Clyde Ruth Donaldson; Wallet overboard D A Moore; Bobcat express Ken Pack; Highly strung Ray Heath; Fickle finger P F Middleton; Lighting-up time M J Lee; Loco line Hugo du Plessis

Early morning dip Mike CudmoreFlying mice on the Deben Vanessa Rawlings; Moon River Jonno Barrett; Mutiny on the Orwell Maureen Lever; Soul 'bearing' Trevor Doran; Own goal E F Dowdall; Self-launching Mark Crew 50; Flying tackle Haydn Windle; Where angels fear to tread Bette Blayney; Blame the ship's cat John A Blum; Repel boarders! John Schofield; A cardinal sin Mike Streets; Adrift? Reg Melhuish; Deathraft C D Boswell-Williams; Help! Peter Webb; Black mark Peter Firstbrook; Rum flambé Alan J Taylor; Break-in and entry Alan Lloyd-Edwards

Special recipe Richard LambleBitter experience Robin Graham; Chocolate soldier Lec Zylko; Brixham tea party David M Thorne; Hanging around in the Hamble Liz King; Surprise catch Derek Wyatt; Black hole Rodney W Fetzer; Ah yes, the bucket . . . Mike Purves; Entertaining Denzil Susan Over; A close attachment Richard Oliver; False (tooth) alarm Mervyn Beecham; Concrete evidence Des Sleightholme; Code red Roger Walsh; 'Blind' navigation M F B Sothcott; Getting your goat Hugo du Plessis; It's a stitch up Fiona Mandeville; Stormy waters Roger Walsh

Collision course Ted HoweSkipper adrift Ted Osborn; Express echo Ralph Bowsfield; Points failure Brian Dobbs; eCopyright

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

First published: 2000.

ISBN:

1-4729-0168-1

OCLC:

845255742