THE SEA IS BLUE...
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Heaton Peter
The sea is turning blue... Stories about yachtsmen / Transl.
from English Kuznetsova V.V. - L.: Hydrometeoiz-
date, 1975. - 192 pp., ill.
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everyone probably knows that in the Mediterranean
the sea is blue, but how
it is bluer in reality than in reality
R.Blade
our image or even in memory! "I've never seen the sea so blue." These words (from Harry Pidgeon's book "Around light alone") with eloquent simplicity acquaintances express surprise and delight any traveler. In each of us there lies a dream to see other edges. The extraordinary development of international native tourism these days is not explained because people are tired of their homeland, and because that you can afford to travel maybe now a much larger number of people. And among them there are those who don’t caresoul plane, train and car, despite the speed of these modern vehicles destinations capable of delivering a traveler to places whose names alone sound like wonderful music. Moreover, this speed is not satisfactory they are not satisfied with the tedious forms malities, customs inspections, idle time waiting in lines, buying tickets, lots of other passengers. Such people prefer to travel in a different way. To the most remote corners they reach land on small sailboats yachts Sometimes they reach only cool Baltic waters, as E. F. Knight did. Sometimes, like Joshua Slocham or Bill Robinson, sailing around the world. And even co- sail around the world more than once, as Eric and Suzanne Xuckok did. Not all of them are experienced sailors. So, Harry Pigeon built it with his own hands ship, and studied navigation in absentia. Some- ry, such as Slocham and Voss, old sailors. But they all have first of all desire to see as much as possible (and from the deck of his yacht) and also courage. From- There is no doubt about courage. More than one yachtsman who wants to go to circumnavigation, turned back, hitting the first really strong one storm There is another distinctiveespecially ity among such travelers. They know how write - tell how it all happened. Exactly this feature of them forced the author to create give this book. Isn't it a miracle? Sitting in a chair by the fireplace, we can travel with them, go- much faster than on a thundering reactor on a new plane, transported from the damp slums industrial city with its cloudy sky to the waters sparkling in the sun's rays, who caress the hot sand of some be from the Fiji Islands. A book is always better than photographs or film. Everyone who has seen the films produced from the book, they know that often a movie disappointing. Books allow you to read between the lines and clearly imagine the joy and the delight of the navigator who landed on shore after long weeks spent in sea. They make it possible to understand his worries, failures chi, disappointments and fear. After all, it is the co- a combination of joys and hardships, success and failure former hopes gives the charm of the journey procession on a small boat. Arrive at some port (no matter how it is in itself tempting) on board the liner - an event usually novene. Arrive there on a sailing yacht - means to experience an amazing feeling, thanks to which even the most seedy a port somewhere in the northeast of England turns into a magical land.This book is dedicated to those who love sea and adventure, who is not indifferent to zo- wu of distant countries. But it is especially intended started for "chair" sailors (and their name is legion!), which for many reasons can- can only navigate through pages books. I hope that I will be able to call readers are interested not only in adventures heroes of the book, but also to their personality and creation their works. But it's best if someone will one day decide that leaving at 8.15 the train can do without it, and from the sea- the lavatel in his dreams will become a sailor in reality. Further contents of the book “The Sea is Turning Blue”: ------------------------------------------ Joshua Slocham - the first sailor around the world lone hunter ........................ Fearless Voss......................... R.T. McMullen - Victorian pedant and pioneer of cruising yachts..... Harry Pigeon, who saw the blue of the sea...... E.F. Knight. Yachtsman, adventurer, journalist ................................... Riddle "Riddles of the Sands" ................. Alain Gerbeau. Didn't he suffer from sea fever? Radka? ........................................ Erling Tambs. A fun adventure, law- considered a tragedy......................"Trekka". On a shell around the world...... Francis Chichester - not only a seafarer - a loner, but also a racer........... Bill Robinson. Circumnavigator and researcher ........................... The Xuckok couple. Around the World Twice on Won- Derere-III" .................................... Application Robert Manry. On a dinghy across the ocean... Some considerations regarding management sailing on a sailing yacht in stormy weather... Glossary of some marine terms .......
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