Practical seamanship
and boatbuilding
CREEPING
UP ON AUCKLAND
COURTENAY A LATIMER
In late 1959, twelve people set
out on a voyage halfway round the world, from England to New Zealand.
It was not a sailing adventure but a commercial project. The boat was
the Aberdeen Anzac, a seventy foot trawler, 
and
the plan was to make a good profit by selling her to the Wellington
Fisherman's Cooperative. Perhaps unsurprisingly it didn't quite work
out like that. In this book with the benefit of forty-five years' hindsight,
C. A. Latimer tells the story of an ill-prepared, and prolonged passage,
certainly not to be emulated-but one which proved to be strangely enjoyable
for a number of unexpected reasons.
C.
A Latimer was born in 1929 to a family of journalists on his father's
side and flour and biscuit manufacturers on his mother's neither of
which would explain his interest in all forms of ship and boat-from
rusty Thames lighters to huge ocean liners.He worked for many years
as a yacht broker with the East Coast Yacht Agency in Woodbridge.
•168 pages Illus • ISBN 0 9547062 2 6• Price: £8.95 pbk
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