Wind Song - Softcover

Ellam, Patrick And June

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1450283519 ISBN 13: 9781450283519

Publisher: iUniverse, 2011

Synopsis

Everyone dreams of running away to sea, and few do it, because of the need to earn a living. But Patrick and June found a way to make a living on the water, in the yacht delivery business. Founding their own firm in 1955 they set off on a series of adventures that took them from New York to Venezuela, Cuba, Nova Scotia, London, Paris and the Great Lakes.

On June's first voyage she didn't see land for 17 days and Patrick made corn beef hash three times a day. Later they sailed together in all kinds of boats including a research vessel that sent a million volts up a wire held by a helicopter, thousands of feet above.

Ashore, they worked on boats in Caribbean islands and French canals helping the local carpenters, electricians and plumbers get the boats ready for sea. And in their free time they sipped coffee on the sidewalks of Paris, strolled on beaches in Bermuda or climbed mountains in Jamaica.

About this title

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About the Author:

Patrick Ellam was born in England in 1920, joined the army at the start of World War II and was an artillery officer when a notice said 'Officers are urgently needed to volunteer to drop alone behind the enemy lines'. So he went to a Spy School and spent the rest of the war, until 1946 as a member of the top secret Special Operations Executive, first in France and then, after the war in Europe ended, in the far east. At SOE his boss' boss reported directly to Winston Churchill. Then in 1951 he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in the ultralight 19 foot boat Sopranino, as described in the book Sopranino. Then in New York, he met June, who was born in Michigan and was working for the producer of a Broadway show.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1450283519
• ISBN 13: 9781450283519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236