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Indentation in the Water: A story of Adventures at Sea and on the Canals of Europe

Indentation in the Water: A story of Adventures at Sea and on the Canals of Europe

          
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Recent DNA results show that I have some Viking blood in me which is possibly why I have always had the urge to become a mariner. For 20 years I lived afloat in the London Docklands, skippering boats all over Europe. From 2002 to 2012, from the age of 60, I must have bought and sold or skippered over one hundred boats to England from France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Most of these boats were old Dutch barges which no other skippers were mad enough to sail across the English Channel. To a large extent it was a way of exploring the continental canals, which I could not otherwise afford to do, and getting paid for it. These accounts of my adventures at sea and on the canals of Europe - from flat calm to mountainous seas, from great friendships to the company from hell, from smooth passages to being rescued by lifeboat - are as much about the people who accompanied me as they are about the journeys. There is no better method of getting to know a person than boating with them, for better or for worse. It is in some ways a journal of the funniest and most poignant stories, and in other ways an instruction book on how not to do it. The one constant is the fact that a boat is an indentation in the water into which you pour endless time and money. Perhaps if the Canal and River Trust gave a copy of this book to everybody who contemplated living on a boat in London, it would solve their problem of too many boats in the capital. Despite this, even the most unwanted and expensive distractions of owning a boat do not impinge on the dream. The freedom of owning a boat and the overriding joy of living on the water put all the mini disasters into the shadow. Rod Taylor
About the Author: Rod Taylor Born in Bradford in 1938, general education, Junior college of Art, Bradford, Regional College at the same time as his good friends David Hockney, David Oxtoby, Norman Stevens, John Loker, Mike Vaughan and the rest of the gang. As an enthusiastic supporter of the CND, attended lots of demonstrations including the Aldermaston marches. This was good practice for being, a pain in the side of authority, including being secretary of the Kirkgate Market Action Committee which exposed the crooked developer Poulson in the 1960s. Stood as a Parliamentary candidate at three general elections in the 60s and 70s for the Liberals. Freelance surface designer after leaving college before being employed as a carpet designer for Firth carpets, culminating as head designer for Tankards Carpets in Bradford; followed by self-sufficiency, self-employed, self-destructive... For the last 50 years doing everything from handloom weaving, double glazing and boat building; boating, busking and boozing on the canals. Married to Brenda in the early 60s with three wonderful daughters, subsequently divorced but good friends and living with Anne for the last 20 years, spending most of that time afloat in London Docklands, skippering boats all over Europe. Now living in Folkestone and enjoying lawn bowling and the fresh seaside air.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781726225809
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 258
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 349 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1726225801
  • Publisher Date: 22 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A story of Adventures at Sea and on the Canals of Europe
  • Width: 152 mm


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