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The author describes building his boat in steel with his son Rob, a welder, together developing and perfecting many new techniques and methods, from Bruce Robert's plans of Slocum's Spray. Choosing, felling, treating timber for masts and interior fittings; sourcing materials for ballast and arranging transport to the sea over eighty miles away. After shakedown voyages to the Hebrides he met his wife Else and together they embarked on a yearlong 10,000-mile voyage, full of incredible sights and sailing adventures. Snorkelling in the warm Caribbean amongst vast shoals of multi-coloured fish and many close encounters with 80-foot whales!

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• Full title: A Quiet Dawdle Around The Atlantic - The Building and Voyaging of 'Osprey' Our Copy Of Slocum's 'Spray'
• Author: James Mellor
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• EAN: 9781781488102
• ISBN: 178148810X
• ID: 12457826
• Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
• Weight: 374 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. June 2013

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