How To Sail A Boat

Ginger Series Vol 13

Matt Vance

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Awa Press
01 June 2013

True stories; Sailing

To be on the sea is something magical. It is to be under fleeting illusion of being free and beyond the reach of the land with its attendant frustrations and pettiness. Under sail you are immediately confronted with a simple set of rules that require you to observe intently and engage your entire being in the enterprise of moving across the ocean.

Despite the enormity of this effort the sailor has little effect on the sea. The wake of a yacht is quickly zipped up behind leaving no trace of your passing. The same cannot be said of the sea's effect on the sailor. It subtly unzips you, pulling out the stuffing that has lay buried by life on the land. How to Sail a Boat is an examination of some of that stuffing, revealing things about the sailor only the sea might know.

By: Matt Vance
Imprint: Awa Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 185g
ISBN: 9781877551857
ISBN 10: 1877551856
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 June 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matt Vance is a New Zealand-based writer, artist and filmmaker specialising in quirky tales from the South Pacific, Southern Ocean and Antarctica. His stories and photographs have appeared in NZ Listener, Sunday Star-Times and Wilderness magazine. Matt has travelled extensively throughout the Pacific and has an immodest enthusiasm for his family, an old yacht named Siward and a motley collection of eccentric friends.

Reviews for How To Sail A Boat: Ginger Series Vol 13

A fine integration of knowledge, humour and affection. --Owen Marshall, author, Harlequin Rex This beautiful little book will put a gleam in the eyes of an experienced sailor, and rock a new sailor's heart with fear, trembling--and longing. As well as reflections on myriad things sailing, it offers glimpses of the true transcendence of sail. --Tom Lochhaas, author, Suddenly Overboard