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Robinetta eBook Series

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  • Robinetta: Her five year mission to seek out the places everyone else says are good

    Robinetta, #1

    by Alison Cable, Julian Cable ...
    Series Book 1 - Robinetta
    We bought our 22'6" Gaff cutter in 2007, and have been lavishing love, attention, and time on her ever since. When she was 75 years old, in 2012, we decided to collect together our various blog posts and edit them together to publish in book form.We sail Robinetta on the East Coast of England, in waters familiar to many people. There are tales of adventure, misadventure, and maintenance within, ... Read more

    PHP290.88

  • On the Whale Road

    Robinetta, #9

    by Alison Cable, Julian Cable ...
    Series Book 9 - Robinetta
    "On the Whale Road" records the adventures and misadventures of a small yacht sailing in Scotland over 3 seasons. Robinetta was built in 1937, designed to cruise from Liverpool to Scotland. She now boasts the modern safety features of a depth gauge, radio, and chart-plotter, but remains true to her original task, of providing a comfortable home from home for a couple who enjoy exploring the ... Read more

    PHP378.90

  • Round Cape Wrath

    Robinetta, #8

    by Alison Cable ...
    Series Book 8 - Robinetta
    Robinetta set off on her travels again in 2021, having been laid up afloat over the COVID pandemic. This time the aim was to sail her north to her owners' new home in the Clyde. With rather more gear failures than ideal it took two sailing seasons for her to reach the Clyde from Tollesbury via a largely different set of harbours and anchorages to the ones she visited in 2014.Including the Cruising ... Read more

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  • Robinetta, There and Back Again, the 2013 log

    Robinetta, #2

    by Alison Cable, Julian Cable ...
    Series Book 2 - Robinetta
    This is the story of a year in the life of a small old wooden gaff rigged sailing yacht. It contains details of the maintance needed to keep a 76 year old boat going, as well as what can do wrong over the course of a season, with both boat and crew. We have owned Robinetta since 2007, and this is the year when things went wrong, as we went on our most ambitious cruise to date, from the river ... Read more

    PHP174.29

  • Light Airs and Yachtsman's Gales

    Robinetta, #3

    by Alison Cable, Julian Cable ...
    Series Book 3 - Robinetta
    We have owned our yacht Robinetta for 7 years, and never gone far from home, but in 2014 we decided it was time she finished going round Britain.I say finished, because after Robinetta was built at Birkenhead in 1937, she headed north, and in 1938 got to the Isle of Skye. From there she headed anticlockwise, making it to the East Coast of England in the late 1940s, where she stayed until May 2014 ... Read more

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  • Gales every Weekend

    Robinetta, #4

    by Alison Cable, Julian Cable ...
    Series Book 4 - Robinetta
    After relaunching Robinetta in April we took her north out of the Crinan canal, hoping to reach the Outer Hebrides. With gales every weekend, and locals agreeing that it was the worst summer they could remember, we still managed to get in some great sailing! ... Read more

    PHP174.29

  • A Strait, some Sounds, and a Sea

    Robinetta, #6

    by Alison Cable, Julian Cable ...
    Series Book 6 - Robinetta
    In 2017 We took our gaff cutter Robinetta from Holyhead on Anglesey up to Scotland, (via Liverpool), then down the Welsh side of the Irish Sea to Bristol.This book is an account of that journey, with all its attendant joys and trials, including a radio that would not stay on station, an engine that filled the bilges with oil, and some interesting weather.What with traversing the Menai Strait, more ... Read more

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  • Bristol to the Blackwater

    Robinetta, #7

    by Alison Cable, Julian Cable ...
    Series Book 7 - Robinetta
    After a winter in Bristol Julian and Alison Cable set out to bring their elderly gaff cutter Robinetta back to the East Coast of England after five sailing seasons going round the British Isles. There were still places to explore on the way, including the Brittany coastline. That was so long as they could get their 7m long yacht across the English Channel.Inspired by the song "Spanish Ladies" they ... Read more

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  • A Gigantic Whinge on the Celtic Fringe

    by Martin Edge ...
    "A Gigantic Whinge on the Celtic Fringe" is the story of a circumnavigation of Ireland aboard my 27ft yacht in 2011.From the Firth of Forth I went through the Caledonian Canal and round Ireland anti-clockwise, which many people consider to be the 'wrong way round'. Most, but by no means all of the journey, was sailed solo.On the way I skirted a lot of the bits of what is sometimes called the ... Read more

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  • A World of My Own

    The First Ever Non-stop Solo Round the World Voyage

    by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston ...
    On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almostunnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at herhelm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili,paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered andbrown, her self-steering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudderhead, came romping joyously back to Falmouth to a fantastic ... Read more

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  • Sunk Without Trace: 30 dramatic accounts of yachts lost at sea

    30 dramatic accounts of yachts lost at sea

    by Paul Gelder ...
    By the same author as the bestselling Total Loss this is a new collection of terrifying and compelling accounts of yachts lost at sea. The seven deadly causes of loss continue to take their toll and Paul Gelder has compiled first-hand accounts of shipwreck and sinking caused by Collision Gear Failure Stress of Weather Faulty Navigation Fire Crew Failure and Exhaustion. The moving emotionally ... Read more

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  • Force of Nature

    by Robin Knox-Johnston ...
    In January 1969, aboard his home-built wooden boat Suhaili, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston became the first person every to sail solo, non-stop around the world. 25 years later, Sir Robin again completed a record-breaking circumnavigation, co-skippering Enza with Kiwi yachting legend Sir Peter Blake. His place in sailing's pantheon of greats was assured.Then, after the tragic death of his wife Sue, Sir ... Read more

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