Bøger af Rod Baker

A recent immigrant to Canada, I had completed an apprenticeship as a shipwright and found a good paying job in the shipyard, which allowed me to buy a three-bedroom house for my growing family. Three weeks before Christmas, the foreman at the shipyard gave me one hour's notice that I was laid off.I found piecemeal work to help pay the mortgage - then decided to go into business repairing boats.I rented a large warehouse, brought a chair from home, made a desk from a door and bought a brown manila envelope to put receipts in.I Need My Yacht by Friday, is the story of what happened next.

Unhappy with the dullness of small-town England in the 1960s, Rod escapes by going to sea. Aboard ship, he finds his place-at the bottom of the stratified naval hierarchy. At sea, he experiences storms that toss large ships around like twigs. Venturing ashore in unfamiliar lands, he runs for his life through a Senegalese village, kisses a man in Australia, is mugged in Tahiti, almost kills the third mate in Sweden and is captured by a woman in Vancouver.