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Description
Including stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship, Taleisins Tales reflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry Pardey gained together on their second boat one they built lovingly with teak carvel planking over sawn black locust frames. The book begins with the boat launch and the transition from their cherished Seraffyn, and includes details from outfitting, provisioning and final detailing during the early months Lin and Larry spent getting to know their new bluewater cruiser, as well as moments of melancholy as they let go of attachments to their first trusty boat that took them around the world. The story takes the reader through those initial cautious 1000 coastal miles between California and the Sea of Cortez, discussing everything from sail handling to dinghy racing to the relative luxuries of bicycles and a custom-built sitztub. It reveals surprising and pleasant engagements with other sailors and locals along the Baja peninsula. Then it launches the reader across the Pacific, sailing with the Pardeys on Taleisins first offshore leg to French Polynesia, through the Cook Islands and Tonga, then on to New Zealand, where they eventually made their new home. In the style readers have come to know through the Pardeys ever popular Cruising in Seraffyn series and Lins award winning Bull Canyon, this book relates stories sometimes harrowing, sometimes cautionary, sometimes hilarious and often heart-warming, especially when it comes to encounters with the people of the South Pacific who become family. If there is a lesson to be gained from readingTaleisins Tales, its that slowing the pace and taking each day as it comes brings unexpected moments of clarity and joy. And that sailing across an ocean on a small boat is not easy but, with the right partner and attitude, can be beautifully rewarding.
Taleisins Tales takes the reader from Bull Canyon, California, to Kawau Island, New Zealand, where, after 28 years of voyaging on Taleisin, Lin and Larry now spend their time running a small nautical publishing company and managing a very small boatyard, puttering about on their fifteen-foot Herreshoff sloop and reflecting on their five decades of bluewater cruising.
"I'm not sure which writer I admire more: the young girl in lust with tomorrow's cruise or the respected sailing sage looking back on a life well lived on a small boat cluttered with large dreams. One thing I know is that Lin's pen has been whispering to me for over forty years nowand this is one of her best." Gary Capn Fatty Goodlander, author of Buy, Outfit and Sail
Lin Pardey has done it again! Her first full-length cruising narrative in many years is as fresh and relevant as those tales that entertained and inspired a generation of sailors decades ago. Once you step aboard, you wont want to step off again. Charles Doane, Cruising Editor, Sail Magazine
Taleisin's Tales captures a sweet moment in the sailing career of the first couple of cruisinga shared life which just may turn out to be the happiest in all of our voyaging literature. Tim Murphy Editor-at-Large, Cruising World
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Specifications
Product Type :
Book
Book Type:
Paperback
Dimensions (IN):
6 x 9
Pages:
220 pages
Author:
Lin and Larry Pardey
Supplier/Publisher:
L & L Pardey Books
Published Date:
2016
Date Added:
July 2016
Format:
Paperback
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