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"Luke's interest in boats began when clambering over the rotten hulks then mudbound in the backwater creeks of his Suffolk boyhood. Aged nine, he set sail with his family for the Greek islands. From then on the sea was his school. After an apprenticeship as a shipwright restoring Thames barges, he returned to the Mediterranean and the nomadic life of a journeyman boatbuilder. In due course he acquired a French girlfriend - the first of many long-suffering partners in his adventures - and Charmian, a 75-year-old cutter. In 1990, with a baby son on board, he sailed Charmian up the Helford River in Cornwall, little realising that seven years later it would become the home of his boatbuilding business, Working Sail. ..."--Book jacket
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Working Sail, Luke Powell
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2012
- Oprawa
- (twarda)
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- Tytuł
- Working Sail
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Luke Powell
- Wydawca
- The Dovecote Press
- Rok wydania
- 2012
- Oprawa
- twarda
- Liczba stron
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0957311915
- ISBN13
- 9780957311916
- Seria
- Tagi
- Ocena
- 4,9 z 5
- Opis
- "Luke's interest in boats began when clambering over the rotten hulks then mudbound in the backwater creeks of his Suffolk boyhood. Aged nine, he set sail with his family for the Greek islands. From then on the sea was his school. After an apprenticeship as a shipwright restoring Thames barges, he returned to the Mediterranean and the nomadic life of a journeyman boatbuilder. In due course he acquired a French girlfriend - the first of many long-suffering partners in his adventures - and Charmian, a 75-year-old cutter. In 1990, with a baby son on board, he sailed Charmian up the Helford River in Cornwall, little realising that seven years later it would become the home of his boatbuilding business, Working Sail. ..."--Book jacket