Name that book!

[Captain Pre-Capsize]

Here is a quote from a classic sailing book that should be on everyone's shelf, but what is the title?

"We had shaken out all reefs, and now tore along at full speed, with the spray-drift sparkling in the sun, and a frolicsome jubilant sea. The delights of going fast when the water is deep and the wind is strong - ah! these never can be rightly described, nor the exulting bound with which your vessel springs throught a buoyant wave, and the thrill of nerve that tells in the sailor's heart, "Well, after all, sailing is a pleasure supreme."

[Donn]

The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"
John Macgregor M.A. http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/EE_Eric/yawl_rob_roy.jpg

edited to add: It's online, with illustrations, here (http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/EE_Eric/yawl_rob_roy00.html) .

[ 04-06-2005, 10:34 AM: Message edited by: Donn ]

[seayou77]

Thanks for the Post, a good read. To add my reccomendation; Riddle of the Sands, by Erskin Childers. Guess that this book is responsible for saving lives as it led to the Evacuation of Dunkirk.

[Captain Pre-Capsize]

Well Donn, I'm impressed - 22 minutes and somebody got it. It is a great read with wry humor too.

[Matt J.]

seayou77, ROTS is online as well... I've been reading it on lunch lately...

Riddle of the Sands (http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/books/rec/rs.html)