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If he is a bad sailor he could get more pleasure from a barge than from an ordinary yacht of greater draught. The barge can choose her water she can run into the smooth places that lie between the banks of the complicated Thames estuary. She can thread the Essex and Suffolk tidal rivers the Crouch, the Roach, the Blackwater, the Colne, the Stour, the Orwell, the Deben, the Alde, are all open to her, and are delightfully wild and unspoiled; she can sit upright upon a sandbank till a blow is over. Many people who could afford yachting and are drawn to it persistently think that it is not for them, because they are 'bad sailors.' If they tried barging on the most broken coast in England - say between Lowestoft and Whitstable -they would be very pleasantly undeceived, unless indeed their case is hopeless. This book, however, is not written to recruit the world of yachtsmen, but to show how a home - a floating home on the sea for winter as well as summer, not a tame house boat-hand a yacht may be combined at a saving of cost to the householder.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book is a memoir of the author and his wife who decided to leave their home and settle on a barge. It's a unique story about turning a vessel into a habitable home, and living in it. The author describes the advantages of living on a floating home in detail. These include cost savings since you don't need to pay rent or rates, the convenience of being on the water, and how it brings you closer to nature. The author goes through the transition from land to sea, and the difficulties he and his wife faced while adapting to living on water. This book is a fascinating premise, and is bound to appeal to those who like their adventures on the sea, or are looking to live a life less ordinary. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781331449003_0
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