Yachting Monthly's Confessions: Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins

by Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly, Mike Peyton (Illustrator)

Overview

This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine.





For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world
about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful
blunders, and the cream of the crop are collected together here in the
hope that the rest of us can learn from their mistakes instead of our
own - or at least have a good laugh at their expense!





Shipwrecks, strandings, mutiny, getting locked in the lavatory...
you couldn't make them up. Counted among the contributors are no less
than four former editors of Yachting Monthly, which goes to prove that worse things really do happen at sea!





Accompanied by cartoons from the inimitable Mike Peyton, this collection deserves a place at every bunkside.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472901675
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/17/2013
Series:	Yachting Monthly
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Paul Gelder is editor of Yachting Monthly magazine, the UK's
leading yachting magazine. 'The Confessional' is one of the first pages
that readers turn to each month and, enhanced with hilariously
appropriate cartoons by Mike Peyton, looks set to remain as popular for
years to come.
Paul Gelder, editor of Yachting Monthly for 10 years – from 2002 to February 2012 – is no stranger to disaster at sea. He has edited two best-selling anthologies of true-life sailing disasters, Total Loss, plus its companion volume, Sunk Without Trace (Adlard Coles Nautical). He has also written three books on round the world sailing events, including The Loneliest Race, covering the 1994–95 BOC Around Alone race, and Gipsy Moth IV: A Legend Sails Again (Wiley Nautical). He was presented with the Ocean Cruising Club's Award of Merit in 2005 for launching the campaign to save Sir Francis Chichester's famous ketch Gipsy Moth IV, which sailed around the world on the 40th anniversary of her first epic voyage.
Mike Peyton is the world's best known nautical cartoonist. He has written several books, illustrated many more, and has produced thousands of cartoons for yachting magazines over many years.