Seduced by the Sea: More Stories from

A collection of high-quality maritime writing that will provide great summertime reading. From rowing across the Atlantic in the dead of night to learning to sail a junk en route from Hong Kong to New Zealand, this anthology will appeal to sailors and adventurers as well as the armchair travel enthusiast.

Preface

7

(3)

Acknowledgements

10

(1)

Contributors

11

(4)

Part 1: Passages

Going Aboard

15

(1)

Anne French

Swirly World in Perpetuity

16

(16)

Andrew Fagan

Voyage to New Zealand, March 1840

32

(9)

Sarah Mathew

With the Blakes to New Zealand

41

(13)

Pippa Blake

Painted Ocean

54

(12)

Neil Arrow

By Junk to New Zealand

66

(13)

Brian Clifford

Neil Illingworth

What Would Cook Have Thought?

79

(12)

Philip Houghton

Leaving England, 1885

91

(9)

Charles Wycherley

From Alaska to Canada

100

(6)

Jenny Webster

Close Hauled to Stewart Island (and Back!)

106

(7)

Graeme Dixon

Las Palmas to the Cape

113

(6)

Stephen Prinselaar

Under Squares off Akaroa

119

(5)

Robin Grigg

Night Life with Oars in the Atlantic

124

(12)

Rob Hamill

Travelling by Sea

136

(9)

Tessa Duder

Part 2: Running Free

So Many Days

145

(1)

Anne French

The Adventures of the Good Ship Whimaway

146

(8)

Sarah Ell

Learning to Capsize

154

(4)

Andrew Fagan

Caul of the Sea

158

(4)

Barbara Newburgh

It All Happened at the Beach

162

(4)

Ted Dawe

Making Music in the Adriatic

166

(5)

Gwen Skinner

Two Records before Breakfast

171

(3)

Anthony Swainson

On Being the Skipper

174

(6)

Anne French

Stoney's Story

180

(9)

Gretchen Brassington

Part 3: Working on Water

Sea Call

189

(1)

Hone Tuwhare

Ship-Handling

190

(7)

Jack Welch

A `Boatscrew' Wartime Wren

197

(11)

Jane Taylor

`A Near-Derelict' in Wartime

208

(12)

Hank Cavendish

Storm in Mid-Atlantic

220

(10)

Peter Taylor

Heirs of Tane

230

(10)

David Lewis

The Jonah Divemaster

240

(14)

Sid Marsh

A Shower of Spray . . .

254

(12)

Fred Ladd

Ross Annabell

Across the Tasman in the Pamir

266

(11)

Andrew Keyworth

Visiting South Georgia

277

(12)

Gerry Clark

To the Chathams on Matai

289

(14)

J. Edward Brown

Part 4: Drama at Sea

Cross-Tides

303

(1)

Denis Glover

`Written Primarily for Dreamers'

304

(11)

John Wray

Fog at Sea --- Silent as Death

315

(12)

Naomi James

Castaways on Disappointment Island

327

(12)

H. Escott-Inman

Evangaline's Delivery Trip

339

(7)

Ian Walker

Rescuing Crumpy

346

(9)

Jack Crooks

Rogue Wave

355

Gordon Mann

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