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Hello, Sailor!: A Year Spent Adrift and All at Sea (Paperback)

by Michael Hutchinson (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press (2 April 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0224078801
ISBN-13: 978-0224078801
Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Sailing - Lie back on your lounger, let the sun climb over the yard-arm, take a long swig of your gin and tonic and ask yourself what the word means to you. Royalty and the super-rich, St. Tropez and the Caribbean, gin and tonics and, well, gin and tonics. So why, wondered Michael Hutchinson, had he wasted his youth sailing a tiny wooden dinghy on Belfast Lough? There may be much to be said to for sailing at the sharp end, for the type of racing where avoiding the shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish is an essential tactic and where relations with your fifteen-year-old crewmate become so fraught that you suffer the indignity of a full mutiny, but you won't catch Hutchinson saying it.For fifteen years after the Captain Bligh incident, Hutchinson stayed firmly put on dry land. But then he found sailing was creeping up on him again. He had a primal urge to feel wind in his hair, taste salt on his lips, and drink gin and tonics until he fell over. So armed with nothing beyond the ability to tie a bowline with one hand, he re-entered the world of boats - to find out what he'd been missing all these years. But what began as a voyage of discovery soon turned into a full-blown addiction. He'd been caught by the same bug that persuades thousands of people to spend every penny they have on getting cold and wet, the same bug that persuades a man to climb a mast in a Scottish gale, the same bug that makes you crash a GBP100,000 yacht into the Isle of Wight... Hello Sailor is one of the UK's funniest young writers hitting top form. It's beautifully observed, thoroughly addictive and guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. And best of all, you don't have to get cold and wet to read it.

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Sailing. Let the sun climb over the yard-arm, take a long swig of your gin and tonic and ask yourself what the word means to you. Royalty and the super-rich, St. Tropez and the Caribbean, gin and tonics and, well, gin and tonics.

There is another kind of sailing. Michael Hutchinson wasted his youth racing a tiny plywood dinghy on Belfast Lough, where avoiding the shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish was an essential tactic, and where relations with his fifteen-year-old crewmate became so fraught that he suffered the indignity of a full-blown mutiny.

For fifteen years afterwards, Hutchinson stayed firmly put on dry land. But still a primal urge coursed through him. He needed to feel wind in his hair, taste salt on his lips, and drink gin and tonics until he fell over. So, armed with nothing beyond the ability to tie a bowline with one hand, he re-entered the world of boats.

What began as a voyage of discovery turned into an addiction, as he looked for ever better ways to get cold and wet. He ended up risking life and limb in a Scottish gale, crashing someone else’s yacht into the Isle of Wight and spending £4,238 on gin and tonics.

Hello Sailor is one of the UK's funniest young writers hitting top form. It's beautifully observed, thoroughly addictive and guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. And best of all, you don't have to get cold and wet to read it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hello Sailor, 26 May 2009

By	R. Porter (Rochdale Lancs) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A great read whether you sail or not, if you need cheering up this book should do it.

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