Frank Mulville in Iskra to Buenos Aires?

[Roach1948]

I am looking for a written account of this voyage. I have read "Dear Dolphin" but sadly this account is of an Atlantic Circuit incluidng Cuba and not Buenos Aires.

Would anybody know if he pubvlished an account of the Buenos Aires voyage, and if so, what it was called?

 

[dombuckley]

He did: "North Star to Southern Cross", but I must admit I haven't read it.

 

[Roach1948]

Thanks I have it on order. I do enjoy reading his books as they almost always have a close call in them. Tershelling Banks was rivetting and in Dear Dolphin, going up the mast on Iskra was pretty harrowing too!

 

[Parsonsheath]

I enjoyed Terschelling Sands, and Dear Dolphin (both still on the shelf, as you can re read his books).

Think I like him because they were all older boats, all had faults, but his philosophy was that life was a series of lies and cheating, and the sea was honest!

 

[ianc1200]

I forgot that; he had a very (30's?) socialist theme running through most of his books.
Schooner Integrity is a good read, the rescue of a boat in the W Indies, Dear Dolphin about the trip to Cuba (lead me to getting dinghy out at Heybridge to photograph the Dolphin a couple of years ago), Rescue & Recovery another good read about the near wrecking of Iskra.

Always liked the fact the trip ended, if not with a sinking, in Bradwell Creek.

IanC