On Going to Sea in Yachts, beside having a wonderfully archaic and literary title, is packed full of the author’s trenchant observation and opinion on subjects as diverse as the open beach cruiser, the yuloh, and the square sail in yachts. All based on first-hand experience and amply illustrated with O’Brien’s clear line drawings. The late author’s royalty from this book is being donated to the project to rebuild the Ilen, the auxiliary trading ketch built in Ireland to O’Brien’s design for the Falkland Islands Company, who commissioned her having been impressed by O’Brien’s Saoirse on her visit to the islands in 1924. On her completion in 1926 the A. K. Ilen was delivered to the Falklands by Conor O’Brien and a crew of two, and spent the following sixty years servicing the scattered local communities. In 1997, after some years lying unused, she was repatriated to the region of her construction on the River Ilen near Baltimore, where her rebuilding and recommissioning are the focus of a charitable educational trust. For more information visit Big Boat Build Workshop
Lodestar Library Volume 3
ISBN 978-1-907206-04-7; 190 x 135mm, 176pp, 25 line drawings, hardcover with laminated jacket.
Price £15 post-free to the UK.
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