Sailing the Shallows
The lost art of cruising the coast in a small boat
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 25 September 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472983022
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 232x156x24 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Colour illustrations throughout 700
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Short description:
A beautifully written and illustrated manifesto for the simple joys of sailing a small boat, filled with useful advice and techniques.
MoreLong description:
A beautifully written and illustrated manifesto for the simple joys of sailing a small boat, filled with useful advice and techniques.
Sailing a dinghy is your gateway to adventure. It requires little of you other than self-reliance and self-confidence, as well as a respect for the subtleties of the local climate and topography. Out at sea in a small boat, nature is not something to be observed disinterestedly: it batters and drenches you, refreshes and enlivens you.
Sailing the Shallows is a manifesto for a different attitude to sailing, far removed from the ostentation and complexity of modern-day yachting. Roger Barnes combines lyrical writing and beautifully drawn illustrations with simple and practical wisdom on experiencing the pure joy of being out on the water in a small boat. We accompany him on his early days afloat in the Lake District, paddling Hildegard 'the 'communist canoe' in France and undertaking more extreme passages (even capsizing) in his beloved Avel Dro. Along the way Roger weaves in advice on skills, techniques and lessons learned: this is a book to be read and re-read not just for the stories but the keen insights into small boat sailing techniques.
Sailing the Shallows describes a lifetime's journey towards the recognition that cruising in a dinghy is not an imperfect and provisional way to get afloat, but the purest and most perfect way to go sailing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 Local Knowledge
2 Back into the Shoals
3 Windermere
4 The Heron
5 Seagoon
6 Windermere Revisited
7 An Inland Passage
8 On the River
9 In the Wake of the Teasel
10 Down to Yarmouth
11 Into Southern Waters
12 Hildegard
13 Baggywrinkle
14 The People of the Shallows
15 Coniston Water
16 Loch Shuna
17 Don't Sail to Lundy in an Easterly
18 Caracole and After
19 Avel Dro
20 Into the West
21 An Unsettled Summer
22 Coasting in September
23 The Last Great Wild River of Europe
24 The Challenge in the Pertuis
25 Capsize!
26 The Backwaters of Venice
Epilogue
