Positioning himself at the front of the boat with his legs dangling over the edge, he managed to hook the storm jib onto the last hank before tons of water washed over him. [...] Grabbing the handhold inside the cockpit, Alexander half swam, half crawled through the cabin and outside to where the mainsail had become trapped on the runner. [...] Finally, at the top of the hill, Jane yanked on the hand brake,which barely held the car in place, perched on the side of the mountain. [...] The posting in Hanover came to an end and the Ransbys, with the British Forces, were off to Hong Kong. [...] By the time they arrived in Bangkok, Geoffrey’s crew and the crew of the Kynaree were well versed in the use of the almanac, the tables of computed altitude and the sextant.
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Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1 13
- 01-17 GMT 13
- June 21 2003 13
- Somewhere off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland 13
- CHAPTER 2 16
- An Adventure in the South China Sea 16
- CHAPTER 3 33
- An Unaccompanied Minor 33
- CHAPTER 4 41
- Coming Into His Own 41
- CHAPTER 5 45
- Horses a Mercedes a Spaniard and a Judge 45
- CHAPTER 6 51
- Building Bridges and Boats 51
- CHAPTER 7 60
- Cocaine and Money 60
- CHAPTER 8 67
- Bad Bones and Hot Places 67
- CHAPTER 9 70
- Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall 70
- CHAPTER 10 78
- Nothing Left to Lose 78
- CHAPTER 11 84
- Four and a Half Tons of Potatoes 84
- CHAPTER 12 95
- The Good the Bad and the Ugly 95
- CHAPTER 13 104
- A Change of Heart 104
- CHAPTER 14 112
- Stand Up and Be Counted 112
- CHAPTER 15 139
- Success and the Azores 139
- CHAPTER 16 144
- Small Fins and a Big Heart 144
- CHAPTER 17 151
- From the Tropics to the Grand Banks 151
- CHAPTER 18 162
- Bottoms Up 162
- CHAPTER 19 166
- All He Wants is a Cigarette 166
- EPILOGUE 181
- Backstay stay extending from a ships mastheads to the side of a ship. 183
- Bilge pump pump used to remove water from inside of a boat. 183
- Bilge the part of a ship that lies between the bottom and the point where the sides go straight up. 183
- Binnacle a container holding a ships compass. 183
- Blade jib intermediate sized headsail. 183
- Bow the forward part of a ship. 183
- Cabin sole floor. 183
- Cabin a private room on a deck. 183
- Deck a floorlike platform of a ship. 183
- Forepeak cabin underneath the front deck to store sails. 183
- Forestay the wire which supports the mast attached at the front of a boat. 183
- Gaff the spar along the top of a fore-and-aft sail. 183
- Gimble gimbal a hinge or device that allows a body to incline freely. 183
- Halyard the rope that pulls a sail up. 183
- Hank a hook used to secure the headsail to the forestay. 183
- Hatch watertight doorway. 183
- Headsail triangular sail at the front of the boat. 183
- Hull the frame or body of a ship. 183
- K-flag the nautical signal flag KKile left half yellow right half blue indicates a desire to communicate. 184
- Knot One nautical mile per hour or 1.2 land miles per hour. 184
- Mainsail the principal sail on a ships mainmast. 184
- Mast a long pole rising from the keel or deck of a ship and supporting the yards booms and rigging. 184
- Mooring warps ropes used to tie a boat up. 184
- Number one jib largest headsail. 184
- Port left side of a ship. 184
- Pulley a wheel with a grooved rim that forms part of a tackle for hoisting or for changing the direction of a force. 184
- Reef a part of a sail taken in or let out in regulating the size of the sail. 184
- Relays an electromagnetic device for remote or automatic control of other devices as switches in the same or a different circuit. 184
- Rig the distinctive shape number and arrangement of sails and masts of a ship. 184
- Running backstays backstay thats adjustable. 184
- Sail locker area used to store sails. 184
- Sail a piece of fabric by means of which the wind is used to propel a ship. 184
- Schooner fore-and-aft-rigged sailing ship. 184
- Shroud remaining wires that support the mast. 184
- Sloop a sailing boat with one mast a fore-and-aft ring and a single jib. 184
- Spar a rounded wood or metal piece for supporting sail rigging. 184
- Spinnaker a large triangular sail set on a long light pole. 185
- Standing rigging see rig . 185
- Starboard the right side of a ship. 185
- Stay a strong rope or wire used to support or steady something usually a mast. 185
- Staysail fore-and-aft sail hoisted on a stay. 185
- Stern rear end of a ship. 185
- Storm jib very small orange headsail used during a storm. 185
- Topmast top section of the mast above the gaff. 185
- Topsail the sail next above the lowest sail on a mast in a square- rigged ship. 185
- Winch a machine to hoist haul turn or strain something forcibly. 185
- Ransby Geoffrey.The Maiden Voyage of the Schooner Russamee November 26 to December 24. 187
- The Chichester Observer 187
- Practical Boat Builder 187
- Yachting World 187
- West Sussex Observer 187
- The British Broadcasting Corporation 187
- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 187
- The Chichester and Midhurst Observer 187
- The Salisbury Journal 187
- Meridan Television 187
- The Telegram 187
- The Halifax Herald 187
- The National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society England 187
- The Newfoundland and Labrador Arthritis Society 187
