Author: Sutherland, Doug.
Title: Throw Off the Bowlines. Four Years Aboard 'gaucho'.
Description: Write-On Publishing. St Francis Bay 2020. 198pp paperback. illustrated colour. 4to 0.4kg. A Fine copy. ISBN: 9781990944802 Inscribed by Author to fftp. In 1976 the author set sail in his 36 ton 50-foot Manuel Campos designed ketch 'Gaucho' from Buenos Aires with his wife and three children. The story of the next three years cruising the Brazilian coast and the West Indian islands, including Barbados and Martinique, is told through family letters written home to South Africa. The boat had an earlier famous history which is also covered here.

Keywords: south southern africa african biography autobiography sailing travel brazil west indies buenos aires yacht ketch el gaucho manuel campos


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