Sopranino

by Colin Mudie, Patrick Ellam, Patrick; Mudie Ellam

Book Overview

Early one morning in 1951 a tiny blue sailboat slipped silently out of Falmouth Harbor in England. Aboard her were two young men, quietly setting out to do something that no one living had ever done before.

For centuries boats had been built as strongly as possible, to withstand the enormous power of the sea. But Patrick Ellam and Colin Mudie had a theory that if you built a boat light enough she would lift over the tops of the waves and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1450245129
• ISBN13: 9781450245128
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Sea Stories Ever Written!

I happened upon this book in a trading library (as I do most of the books I read). It was tattered and all the pages were loose from the binding, but I was intrigued by the tale of two young men in a tiny boat crossing the Atlantic in the era of yachting before ammenities and electronics took over.My boyfriend and partner/captain read it first and he was continually laughing out loud and begging to read it to me. I protested saying "You'll ruin it, if you read it out loud to me"!The story of these two wry, guileless, enthusiastic young men is a delight for a reader that is used to reading the plodding, egocentric accounts of most sea voyage stories. Buy this book! And try to figure out Hannibal!