A gypsy life : adventures of Clare and Edward Allcard aboard their yacht Johanne / Clare Allcard.
By: Allcard, Clare [author.].
Material type: BookPublisher: Surrey : Ashford, Buchanan & Enright Publishers, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Description: xi, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1852533005 (paperback).Subject(s): Allcard, Clare | Allcard, Edward C., 1914- | Johanne (Yacht) | Sailors -- Biography | Women sailors -- BiographyDDC classification: 797.1246Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 797.1246 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00213145 |
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.