Sailing Through Life

Nick Ardley

Austin Macaulay

£18.99

After a violent response to a blog urging fellow yachtsmen to follow COVID guidelines, Nick Ardley wondered whether he’d ever seek publication again. Then he had his #MeToo moment and decided that victims of bullying should not be silenced. He also wanted to share his warning to other male yachtsmen not to pass up on the NHS test for prostate cancer. The result is a characteristic Ardley offering; sixteen chapters mainly of gentle exploration of his Kent and Essex home waters aboard the delightful Whimbrel, with a few expeditions further afield. Shorter versions of some chapters have already appeared in YM.

Ardley aficionados will be reassured to hear that his appreciation of a Thames barge, a marshy cut or a former industrial landscape remains undimmed.