Sailing - A Sailor's Dictionary For Landlubbers, Old Salts, & Armchair Drifters
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Sailing - A Sailor's Dictionary For Landlubbers, Old Salts, & Armchair Drifters
Funny book Sailing by Henry Beard & Roy McKie
Humorous Dictionary For Landlubbers, Old Salts, & Armchair Drifters
(1981 Paperback Book) by Henry Beard & Roy McKie
With text by Henry Beard, founder of the National Lampoon and illustrations by Roy McKie
National Lampoon takes you on a journey filled with oddities, ironies, and downright insanity.
The Classic. From Abandon to Zephyr, this is the lexicon that brings new meaning to the things said at sea. Here is the "New York Times" bestselling lexicon of sailing--or, the art of getting wet and becoming ill while slowly going nowhere at great expense. "Sailing" embarks upon uncharted waters, diving authoritatively into terms like adrift (a boat that is drifting), aglub (a boat that is sinking), and flotsam (anything floating in the water from which there is no response when the offer of a cocktail is made). Full-sail ahead, flying the flag of obsession, the book lists close to 200 definitions and presents more than 50 full-page cartoons--to bring new meaning not just to the anchor and Aneroid Barometer, but to the boom, buoy, brightwork, and Beaufort Scale, too. The book plumbs the depths of the sea's rich traditions, providing a fix on the catamaran and dinghy, the gunwale and jib-boom, the mizzen, porthole, and ketch (a disagreeable clause in many boat-purchase contracts). 710,000 copies in print., With text by Henry Beard, founder of the National Lampoon and illustrations by Roy McKie, here is the New York Times bestselling lexicon of sailing--or, the art of getting wet and becoming ill while slowly going nowhere at great expense.Sailing embarks upon uncharted waters, diving authoritatively into terms like adrift (a boat that is drifting), aglub (a boat that is sinking), and flotsam (anything floating in the water from which there is no response when the offer of a cocktail is made).Full-sail ahead, flying the flag of obsession, the book lists close to 200 definitions and presents more than 50 full-page cartoons--to bring new meaning not just to the anchor and Aneroid Barometer, but to the boom, buoy, brightwork, and Beaufort Scale, too. The book plumbs the depths of the sea's rich traditions, providing a fix on the catamaran and dinghy, the gunwale and jib-boom, the mizzen, porthole, and ketch (a disagreeable clause in many boat-purchase contracts).
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Data sheet
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Author
- Henry Beard
Roy Mckie - Topic
- Sailing
Topic / Sports - Format
- Hardcover
- Publication Year
- 1981
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Humor
Sports & Recreation - Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
- Book Title
- Sailing : a Sailor's Dictionary
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Item Height
- 0.3 in
- Item Width
- 8 in
- Intended Audience
- Adults
Young Adults - Illustrator
- Yes
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