Ergebnis für "The Line" in Abenteuerreisen

Die Angst vor Sturm hat schon viele fähige Seglerinnen und Segler davon abgehalten, sich auf die offene See zu wagen. Doch Lin und Larry Pardey trotzten den Mythen, dass es unmöglich sei, ein kleines Boot gefahrlos durch einen Sturm zu bringen. Mehrfache Weltumsegelungen mit ihren kleinen Booten Seraffyn und Taleisin bewiesen das Gegenteil. Sie entwickelten inzwischen seit Jahren bewährte Methoden, die für alle Arten von Segelbooten im Sturm funktionieren.

Including stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship, Taleisin's Tales reflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry Pardey gained together on the second boat they built lovingly with teak carvel planking over sawn black locust frames. The book includes details from outfitting, provisioning, and final detailing during the early months Lin and Larry spent getting to know their new bluewater cruiser, as well as moments of melancholy as they let go of attachments to their first trusty boat.

The cruising tale is full of the sights and sounds, the fragrances and native customs of foreign lands, especially Central American and the Caribbean. It is a story of a leisurely sail through the Gulf of Cortez and on through Panama Canal to the Azores and England. Cruising in Seraffyn is also a carefully thought out guide to living aboard a small boat, with fun and economy as the guiding principles. Four appendices provide data that is vital for anyone comtemplating long-distance cruising.

On the 200th birthday of the world’s first passenger-carrying railway, Nige Tassell sets out to ride Britain’s railway network all the way to its lesser-travelled-to corners, its seldom-visited outposts. From Wick to Penzance and many points in between, he stays on until the end of the line. He is the last man sitting. The sixteen final destinations he visits offer sixteen different stories. So grab yourself a window seat for an odyssey that tells us much about Britain today. All aboard, all aboard.