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Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1 13
- 01-17 GMT 13
- June 21 2003 13
- Somewhere off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland 13
- CHAPTER 2 16
- An Adventure in the South China Sea 16
- CHAPTER 3 33
- An Unaccompanied Minor 33
- CHAPTER 4 41
- Coming Into His Own 41
- CHAPTER 5 45
- Horses a Mercedes a Spaniard and a Judge 45
- CHAPTER 6 51
- Building Bridges and Boats 51
- CHAPTER 7 60
- Cocaine and Money 60
- CHAPTER 8 67
- Bad Bones and Hot Places 67
- CHAPTER 9 70
- Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall 70
- CHAPTER 10 78
- Nothing Left to Lose 78
- CHAPTER 11 84
- Four and a Half Tons of Potatoes 84
- CHAPTER 12 95
- The Good the Bad and the Ugly 95
- CHAPTER 13 104
- A Change of Heart 104
- CHAPTER 14 112
- Stand Up and Be Counted 112
- CHAPTER 15 139
- Success and the Azores 139
- CHAPTER 16 144
- Small Fins and a Big Heart 144
- CHAPTER 17 151
- From the Tropics to the Grand Banks 151
- CHAPTER 18 162
- Bottoms Up 162
- CHAPTER 19 166
- All He Wants is a Cigarette 166
- EPILOGUE 181
- Backstay stay extending from a ships mastheads to the side of a ship. 183
- Bilge pump pump used to remove water from inside of a boat. 183
- Bilge the part of a ship that lies between the bottom and the point where the sides go straight up. 183
- Binnacle a container holding a ships compass. 183
- Blade jib intermediate sized headsail. 183
- Bow the forward part of a ship. 183
- Cabin sole floor. 183
- Cabin a private room on a deck. 183
- Deck a floorlike platform of a ship. 183
- Forepeak cabin underneath the front deck to store sails. 183
- Forestay the wire which supports the mast attached at the front of a boat. 183
- Gaff the spar along the top of a fore-and-aft sail. 183
- Gimble gimbal a hinge or device that allows a body to incline freely. 183
- Halyard the rope that pulls a sail up. 183
- Hank a hook used to secure the headsail to the forestay. 183
- Hatch watertight doorway. 183
- Headsail triangular sail at the front of the boat. 183
- Hull the frame or body of a ship. 183
- K-flag the nautical signal flag KKile left half yellow right half blue indicates a desire to communicate. 184
- Knot One nautical mile per hour or 1.2 land miles per hour. 184
- Mainsail the principal sail on a ships mainmast. 184
- Mast a long pole rising from the keel or deck of a ship and supporting the yards booms and rigging. 184
- Mooring warps ropes used to tie a boat up. 184
- Number one jib largest headsail. 184
- Port left side of a ship. 184
- Pulley a wheel with a grooved rim that forms part of a tackle for hoisting or for changing the direction of a force. 184
- Reef a part of a sail taken in or let out in regulating the size of the sail. 184
- Relays an electromagnetic device for remote or automatic control of other devices as switches in the same or a different circuit. 184
- Rig the distinctive shape number and arrangement of sails and masts of a ship. 184
- Running backstays backstay thats adjustable. 184
- Sail locker area used to store sails. 184
- Sail a piece of fabric by means of which the wind is used to propel a ship. 184
- Schooner fore-and-aft-rigged sailing ship. 184
- Shroud remaining wires that support the mast. 184
- Sloop a sailing boat with one mast a fore-and-aft ring and a single jib. 184
- Spar a rounded wood or metal piece for supporting sail rigging. 184
- Spinnaker a large triangular sail set on a long light pole. 185
- Standing rigging see rig . 185
- Starboard the right side of a ship. 185
- Stay a strong rope or wire used to support or steady something usually a mast. 185
- Staysail fore-and-aft sail hoisted on a stay. 185
- Stern rear end of a ship. 185
- Storm jib very small orange headsail used during a storm. 185
- Topmast top section of the mast above the gaff. 185
- Topsail the sail next above the lowest sail on a mast in a square- rigged ship. 185
- Winch a machine to hoist haul turn or strain something forcibly. 185
- Ransby Geoffrey.The Maiden Voyage of the Schooner Russamee November 26 to December 24. 187
- The Chichester Observer 187
- Practical Boat Builder 187
- Yachting World 187
- West Sussex Observer 187
- The British Broadcasting Corporation 187
- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 187
- The Chichester and Midhurst Observer 187
- The Salisbury Journal 187
- Meridan Television 187
- The Telegram 187
- The Halifax Herald 187
- The National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society England 187
- The Newfoundland and Labrador Arthritis Society 187