"The Slope of the Wind" by Adrian Seligman

[Fantasie 19]

..in a word, superb!

An interesting character indeed, this book details the early sailing career of Adrian Seligman on the sailing barquentines delivering cargo's between Australia and the UK...

He's dead now, but what a life

 

[bikedaft]

sounds good, have ordered one thanks

cracking pic too...

 

[MASH]

Anything by AS is well worth the read.
War in the Islands is a superb and very unusual angle on WWII - special operations in boats in the Dodecanese.
No Stars to Guide is a fictional or perhaps non fictional tale of intrigue and getting an "appropriated" aged and rickety tanker down the Turkish coast again in WWII.

Both particularly poignant to anyone who knows those waters.

 

[Poignard]

'The Voyage of the Cap Pilar' is also a good read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Voyage-Pilar-Adrian-Seligman/dp/0850364388

 

[Babylon]

'The Voyage of the Cap Pilar' is also a good read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Voyage-Pilar-Adrian-Seligman/dp/0850364388

Yes, both cracking books - read them both this year.

 

[ArchieP]

Slope winds are local diurnal winds present on all sloping surfaces. They flow upslope during the day as the result of surface heating, and downslope at night because of surface cooling. Slope winds are produced by the local pressure gradient caused by the difference in temperature between air near the slope and air at the same elevation away from the slope.