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The Long Lost Log: A Diary of a Virgin Sailor

The Long Lost Log: A Diary of a Virgin Sailor

Current price: $24.10
Publication Date: August 1st, 2022
Publisher:
The Lilliput Press
ISBN:
9781843518273
Pages:
176

Description

In 1974, 22-year-old virgin sailor Mick escapes unemployment, family

About the Author

In 1974, 22-year-old virgin sailor Mick escapes unemployment, family and 3-day-week London to become a deckhand on a small sailboat, Gay Gander, setting out to sail the Atlantic from England’s West Country, via the Canaries, to Antigua in the Caribbean.
Under the eye of an unfathomable skipper, John Francis Kearney, and his formidable sailing companion Carola (both escaping from a rain-sodden Ireland and broken marriages), Mick has to learn sailing, table manners, bridging the generation gap and getting along with Stryder, the Russian Blue ship’s cat.
The Long Lost Log should be fiction but is the true story of a voyage of discovery that Mick – against all odds – survived to tell this remarkable and hilarious tale.
His inner and outer journey combines danger with the unexpected, the erotic and the comic, in a resonantly related rite of passage that leaps from the page like the curious whale that once disturbed the narrator’s watch.