Year: 1978 Language: English Author: John M Ridgway Genre: Textbook Publisher: Heinemann Edition: First Format: PDF & EPUB Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 317 Description: There has never been a book about an ocean yacht race like this. John Ridgwoy whose name first blazed across the headlines in 1966 when with Chay Blyth he made the first crossing of the Atlantic in a rowboat, wanted to mark the tenth anniversary of the John Ridgwoy School for Adventure at Ardmore, northwest Scotland, with an unusual exploit that could be undertaken while the school was closed for the winter. Eventually he and his "wife Marie Christine decided to buy a 57-foot ketch which they could enter for the 1977-78 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race with a crew of instructors from the school. Their plan was that the adventure should be closely linked with their continuing work at Ardmore; so they chose a boat that—while it may hove lacked the lines of an ocean racer—would be serviceable for many years of adventure- cruising and sail-training for the school courses at Ardmore. In this book, compiled largely from the separate diaries they kept throughout the eight-and-a-half-month voyage, the Ridgwoys tell their whole story; from financing and building their boat, the Debenhams, to the psychological and other pressures associated with life on board shared for long, hard weeks at sea by eleven men and a woman united by a common aim but divided by age, temperament, and experience. To add to the tension, a two-man TV crew was on board from beginning to end with a free hand to film and record the action and reaction above and below decks the good times "with the bad, the excitement of competitive sailing, the encounters with wild life and icebergs together with boredom, squalor and discomfort, explosions of anger and frustration. Much more than on engrossing traveland- adventure yarn, this is the sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious but constantly absorbing human story of the boat and crew who went round the world with Ridgway John Ridgway is a former British paratrooper. He and Mane Christine Ridgway run the John Ridgway School for Adventure in northwest Scotland.
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Round the world with Ridgway
Language: English
Author: John M Ridgway
Genre: Textbook
Publisher: Heinemann
Edition: First
Format: PDF & EPUB
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 317
Description: There has never been a book about an ocean yacht race like this.
John Ridgwoy whose name first blazed across the headlines in 1966
when with Chay Blyth he made the first crossing of the Atlantic in a rowboat,
wanted to mark the tenth anniversary of the John Ridgwoy School for Adventure
at Ardmore, northwest Scotland, with an unusual exploit that could be undertaken
while the school was closed for the winter. Eventually he and his "wife Marie
Christine decided to buy a 57-foot ketch which they could enter for the 1977-78
Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race with a crew of instructors from the
school.
Their plan was that the adventure should be closely linked with their continuing
work at Ardmore; so they chose a boat that—while it may hove lacked
the lines of an ocean racer—would be serviceable for many years of adventure-
cruising and sail-training for the school courses at Ardmore.
In this book, compiled largely from the separate diaries they kept throughout
the eight-and-a-half-month voyage, the Ridgwoys tell their whole story; from financing
and building their boat, the Debenhams, to the psychological and other
pressures associated with life on board shared for long, hard weeks at sea by
eleven men and a woman united by a common aim but divided by age, temperament,
and experience. To add to the tension, a two-man TV crew was on
board from beginning to end with a free hand to film and record the action and
reaction above and below decks the good times "with the bad, the excitement
of competitive sailing, the encounters with wild life and icebergs together with
boredom, squalor and discomfort, explosions of anger and frustration.
Much more than on engrossing traveland- adventure yarn, this is the sometimes
touching, sometimes hilarious but constantly absorbing human story of the
boat and crew who went round the world with Ridgway
John Ridgway is a former British paratrooper. He and Mane Christine Ridgway
run the John Ridgway School for Adventure in northwest Scotland.
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