A gypsy life : adventures of Clare and Edward Allcard aboard their yacht Johanne /
Allcard, Clare,
A gypsy life : adventures of Clare and Edward Allcard aboard their yacht Johanne / Clare Allcard. - xi, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Of dream ships and fish poison -- Rats, roaches, and other scavengers -- Out of the water, a worm's-eye-view -- Pumping our way to Bequia -- Careening and crooks and the Concord Falls -- Hurricane Gertrude -- Re-rigging ready for the crossing -- The Atlantic -- Cossetting and cruising in the U.K. -- Chilly adventures in France -- Johanne returns to her birthplace -- A time of gales and topmasts -- "L'abordage!" (collision at sea) -- Adios : to Timothy and the mainsail -- Mediterranean Spain -- The good and the bad in Italy -- A Greek holiday -- The Suez Canal -- An incident off Ethiopia -- Jail -- Final haul to the Garden of Eden -- Glossary of nautical terms.
1852533005 (paperback)
Allcard, Clare.
Allcard, Edward C., 1914-
Johanne (Yacht)
Sailors--Biography.
Women sailors--Biography.
797.1246
A gypsy life : adventures of Clare and Edward Allcard aboard their yacht Johanne / Clare Allcard. - xi, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Of dream ships and fish poison -- Rats, roaches, and other scavengers -- Out of the water, a worm's-eye-view -- Pumping our way to Bequia -- Careening and crooks and the Concord Falls -- Hurricane Gertrude -- Re-rigging ready for the crossing -- The Atlantic -- Cossetting and cruising in the U.K. -- Chilly adventures in France -- Johanne returns to her birthplace -- A time of gales and topmasts -- "L'abordage!" (collision at sea) -- Adios : to Timothy and the mainsail -- Mediterranean Spain -- The good and the bad in Italy -- A Greek holiday -- The Suez Canal -- An incident off Ethiopia -- Jail -- Final haul to the Garden of Eden -- Glossary of nautical terms.
1852533005 (paperback)
Allcard, Clare.
Allcard, Edward C., 1914-
Johanne (Yacht)
Sailors--Biography.
Women sailors--Biography.
797.1246