Sailing Solo Alone

ISBN-13: 9780956921901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 184 str.

J J James

Opis

Sailing Solo Alone. This true story has three main characters - Some guy in a boat; an 18ft yacht called Solo and the Sea - a rather bad tempered sea. The budding sailor, buys this yacht, takes it for a spin up and down the river a couple of times, raises the sails once or twice, swabs the decks and reads a manual or two. Then, before he knew it, our hero (for want of a better word) is in the middle of the North Sea. It's October, it's extremely windy, it's the dead of night and more than that, he's out there alone. The Sea has one attempt at killing him. The boat somehow stays upright, more by luck than anything else. He even manages to find a safe haven for the night. Does he stay there? No He actually sets out to sea at three o'clock in the morning. If you wanted to be charitable, you might have said: it was quite a nice night for a bit of a sail. And it was... At first. But this was the North Sea... The North Sea in winter. As he left the pier heads, looking seaward, it was as dark as doomsday out there... And it was only going to get darker. It wouldn't be long before, he realised buying a yacht called 'Solo' may not have been one of his better ideas. All a little late by then.