How To Sail A Boat: Ginger Series Vol 13

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To sail a boat is a magical, and sometimes mystical, experience. The sailor is free from the cares of life on land, entirely absorbed in the enterprise of moving a craft across the water. For the uninitiated, though, this is madness. Whatever reason can there be for willingly putting yourself at the mercy of nature's unpredictable forces, winds, waves and weather? In this captivating book, Matt Vance takes you inside the mind of the sailor, from the first scary moment of handling a boat solo to the exhilaration of sailing across oceans and discovering new worlds. His stories and those of his fellow madmen will captivate sailors young and old - and if you're a landlubber you may just find yourself yearning for the blue horizon.

Matt Vance is a New Zealand-based writer, artist and filmmaker specialising in quirky tales from the South Pacific, Southern Ocean and Antarctica. His stories and photographs have appeared in NZ Listener, Sunday Star-Times and Wilderness magazine. Matt has travelled extensively throughout the Pacific and has an immodest enthusiasm for his family, an old yacht named Siward and a motley collection of eccentric friends.

"A fine integration of knowledge, humour and affection." --Owen Marshall, author, Harlequin Rex "This beautiful little book will put a gleam in the eyes of an experienced sailor, and rock a new sailor's heart with fear, trembling--and longing. As well as reflections on myriad things sailing, it offers glimpses of the true transcendence of sail." --Tom Lochhaas, author, Suddenly Overboard