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Sailing. Lie back on your lounger, let the sun climb over the yard-arm, take a long swig of your gin and tonic and ask yourself what the word means to you. Royalty and the super-rich, St. Tropez and the Caribbean, gin and tonics and, well, gin and tonics. o why, wondered Michael Hutchinson, had he wasted his youth sailing a tiny wooden dinghy on Belfast Lough?There may be much to be said to for sailing at the sharp end, for the type of racing where avoiding the shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish is an essential tactic and where relations with your fifteen-year-old crewmate become so fraught that you suffer the indignity of a full mutiny, but you won t catch Hutchinson saying it. or fifteen years after the Captain Bligh incident, Hutchinson stayed firmly put on dry land. But then he found sailing was creeping up on him again. He had a primal urge to feel wind in his hair, taste salt on his lips, and drink gin and tonics until he fell over. o armed with nothing beyond the ability to tie a bowline with one hand, he re-entered the world of boats to find out what he d been missing all these years. But what began as a voyage of discovery soon turned into a full-blown addiction. He d

About the Author :
Michael Hutchinson became a full-time cyclist in 2000 after becoming disillusioned with an academic career. Over the following eight years he has won more than twenty national titles, and the gold medal in the Masters' Pursuit World Championships. He is now a writer and journalist (and cyclist) and lives in south London. His book on the hour cycling record, The Hour, won the Best New Writer award at the British Sports Book Awards.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780224078801
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Weight: 270 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0224078801
  • Publisher Date: 02 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 135 mm


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