Well-Intentioned Advice

Jon Tucker

Storm Bay Books

£15.95

This book is subtitled ‘a life-voyage afloat’ and consists of 18 articles of varying lengths taking the reader from the early days of Jon and Babs Tucker building New Zealand Maid and educating their five sons on board (see this month’s Book at Bunktime) to a trip through the Panama Canal with a son and daughter in law and three grandchildren. But this is more than a liveaboard story.

Kjon and Babs’s commitment to environmental issues saw them sailing to protest against the French nuclear testing programme in Morurea and also involved with the restoration of the Mawson huts in the Antarctic. They also describe long-lining under sail for tuna and making ladfell on some of the world’s remotest islands.

Highly recommended.