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16%OFFMichael Hutchinson - Missing the Boat - 9780099552345 - V9780099552345
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Missing the Boat

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Description for Missing the Boat Paperback. As a teenager, the author raced tiny plywood dinghies on Belfast Lough, amid shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish. Then, at the age of eighteen, driven to despair by his own unremitting mediocrity, he gave up. This title tells the story of his comeback season, on the South Coast of England, in Ireland, and in the resorts of the Mediterranean. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: WSSN3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.

The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure.

Yacht racing. A world of privilege and money. Beautiful women, bronzed men, and Simon le Bon explaining that he used to be in a band.

It's not like that for everyone. Somewhere much, much further down the ladder it all looks very different. As a teenager, Michael Hutchinson raced tiny plywood dinghies on Belfast Lough, amid shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish. For him, sailing became the kind of obsession that often as not ends with a psychiatric intervention. Turning pro was his only dream.

Then, at the age of eighteen, driven to despair by his own unremitting mediocrity, he gave up. But he never stopped dreaming about it - what was he missing out on? How good or bad had he really been? Had it really been a wasted youth? At last, fifteen years later, he went back.

Missing the Boat is the story of his comeback season, on the South Coast of England, in Ireland, and in the glamorous resorts of the Mediterranean. It's about the yachts, the people, the regattas, and just what it was like to dive back into a world that had become entirely alien.

Michael Hutchinson won the Best First Book at the British Sports Book Awards.

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099552345
SKU
V9780099552345
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-7

About Michael Hutchinson
Michael Hutchinson became a full-time cyclist in 2000 after becoming disillusioned with an academic career. Over the following six years he has won more than twenty national titles, and the gold medal in the Masters' Pursuit World Championships. He is now a writer and journalist (and cyclist) and lives in south London. His book on the hour cycling record, The Hour, was published by Yellow Jersey in paperback in 2007. He is now a writer and journalist and lives in Cambridge.

Reviews for Missing the Boat
Michael Hutchinson delivers the laughs with ease
Independent
A humorous account of messing about in boats
The Bookseller

Goodreads reviews for Missing the Boat