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Very Willing Griffin : the story of the smallest boat every to compete in the Singlehanded Transatlantic Race / David Blagden.

By: Blagden, David, 1944- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Peter Davies, 1973Copyright date: ©1973Description: xvi, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 043201425X (hardback).Subject(s): Willing Griffin (Sloop) | Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic RaceDDC classification: 797.140924
Contents:
Part I:Preparation -- Just doodling -- Birth of Willing Griffin -- Launching, trials and tribulations -- Doing battle -- Accelerate to the finish -- Part II:Qualification -- Testing man and boat -- Facing the committee -- A knot in my throat -- Part III:Race -- The smallest boat in the race (Day 1) -- Getting to grips (Days 2-5) -- Listen to the boat (Days 6-8) -- Nice ugly gales (Days 9-13) -- The Azores perforce (Days 14-18) -- Good to be at sea (Days 18-23) -- Pollution and a visitor (Days 24-5) -- Champagne and diamonds (Days 26-9) -- A nightmare begins (Days 30-2) -- And on ... and on.... (Days 33-5) -- Rock bottom (Days 36-8) -- The tape (Day 39) -- A new start (Days 40-2) -- Monster (Days 43-5) -- Griffin leaping (Days 46-9) -- Finishing time (Days 50-2)
List(s) this item appears in: Dr. Raymond Fielding Collection
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending 797.140924 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00180404
Total holds: 0

Includes index.

Part I:Preparation -- Just doodling -- Birth of Willing Griffin -- Launching, trials and tribulations -- Doing battle -- Accelerate to the finish -- Part II:Qualification -- Testing man and boat -- Facing the committee -- A knot in my throat -- Part III:Race -- The smallest boat in the race (Day 1) -- Getting to grips (Days 2-5) -- Listen to the boat (Days 6-8) -- Nice ugly gales (Days 9-13) -- The Azores perforce (Days 14-18) -- Good to be at sea (Days 18-23) -- Pollution and a visitor (Days 24-5) -- Champagne and diamonds (Days 26-9) -- A nightmare begins (Days 30-2) -- And on ... and on.... (Days 33-5) -- Rock bottom (Days 36-8) -- The tape (Day 39) -- A new start (Days 40-2) -- Monster (Days 43-5) -- Griffin leaping (Days 46-9) -- Finishing time (Days 50-2)

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