Martin O'Scannall loves the old, the eccentric, the offbeat - the
quirky if you like; the wandering off into byways, the exploration
of half-forgotten snippets of history. And Galicia, his home for
the past decade or more, is ideal territory for indulging that
taste. Galicia is a time warp: rain-swept, isolated, savage and
gentle by turns, as far a cry from the blazing Costas as it is
possible to imagine. This book is a conversation with the past,
conducted in a very old, engineless gaff cutter, armed with the
Admiralty Pilot, a gallant crew, and a sense of the ridiculous. We
encounter, but in unexpected ways, the likes of Drake, Nelson, the
ill-fated HMS Serpent, Celtic myth and legend, and the
reminiscences of those who have gone before, all interspersed with
the business of managing an old yacht in the old way: Walker log,
paper charts and all. Beginning, as he says it has to be, with the
dreaded storm at sea.
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