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"""A cracking read."" (Yachting World) ""A wonderful collection of sailing stories from across centuries and around the world."" (Yachting Monthly) ""Some of the great sailing yarns retold in gripping style."" (Classic Boat) ""Make sure you have a long watch when you pick this up as you won't be able to put it down."" (Peter Goss, MBE) ""Worse things happen at sea and when they do men are levelled: admirals become cannibals, mothers become master mariners, and DIY bodgers become circumnavigators as Dick Durham's book reveals."" (Practical Boat Owner) ""Captivating and an absorbing read."" (Little Ship Club)"

""A cracking read."" (Yachting World) ""A wonderful collection of sailing stories from across centuries and around the world."" (Yachting Monthly) ""Some of the great sailing yarns retold in gripping style."" (Classic Boat) ""Make sure you have a long watch when you pick this up as you won't be able to put it down."" (Peter Goss, MBE) ""Worse things happen at sea and when they do men are levelled: admirals become cannibals, mothers become master mariners, and DIY bodgers become circumnavigators as Dick Durham's book reveals."" (Practical Boat Owner) ""Captivating and an absorbing read."" (Little Ship Club)

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Dick Durham has been sailing for over 60 years during which time he has served on the last working Thames barge, been on the halyards of the 12 metre Victory, acted as watch leader on Gipsy Moth IV and been at the end of a lifeboat tow rope in the Bay of Biscay in a Force 10 storm. He has written six books about sailing including the biographies of the last sailing captain, Bob Roberts, yacht designer Maurice Griffiths and yachting cartoonist Mike Peyton. He writes a column for Yachting Monthly.

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