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To the Baltic with Bob

Griff Rhys Jones

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To the Baltic with Bob

by Griff Rhys Jones
To the Baltic with Bob
To the Baltic with Bob

Humorous misadventures of amateur sailors.

If your idea of an escape involves laughter, camaraderie, and a touch of sea salt, "To the Baltic With Bob" might just be the perfect companion for your reading nook. Griff Rhys Jones invites you to embark on a nautical journey brimming with humor and the absurd realities of tackling a mid-life crisis with an ill-prepared crew and an old boat. The book promises not just waves of adventure, but ripples of self-discovery and friendship amidst the vastness of the Baltic.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

To the Baltic with Bob

by Griff Rhys Jones
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ISBN: 9780141012865
Author: Griff Rhys Jones
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2005-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Food & Drink, Travel
Related Topics: Memoir, Adventure
Goodreads rating: 3.29
(rated by 149 readers)

Description

In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them, as he knew how to mend the engine. And this is their story. Over four long months of applied bickering in a vessel no bigger than a London taxi, they visited most of the geographically interesting restaurants on the Baltic seaboard. They sailed, over, and, even at one point, onto the mysterious heart of the Nordic world. They pushed themselves to the very limits of human endurance, before finally agreeing to wash their sleeping bags on a cool cycle at number six. To the Baltic with Bob is the full account of their stirring journey through the longest heat wave the frozen north has ever suffered; of three men in search of the answer to a troubling can you really outmanoeuvre a mid-life crisis by running away to sea?
 

Humorous misadventures of amateur sailors.

If your idea of an escape involves laughter, camaraderie, and a touch of sea salt, "To the Baltic With Bob" might just be the perfect companion for your reading nook. Griff Rhys Jones invites you to embark on a nautical journey brimming with humor and the absurd realities of tackling a mid-life crisis with an ill-prepared crew and an old boat. The book promises not just waves of adventure, but ripples of self-discovery and friendship amidst the vastness of the Baltic.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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