For centuries boats had been built as strongly as possible to withstand the enormous power of the sea. But Patrick &amp; Colin had a theory that if you built one as lightly as possible, she would lift over the tops of the waves and so survive. To rove it they had built the smallest boat that would carry two men and their stores. Then they sailed more than 10,000 miles, to four continents before arriving in New York, their destination. This is a true tale of high adventure in our time, and takes you away from the problems of this century into a world where man by his skill and judgement must make use of the vast elemental forces of nature to bring him safely to the place where he would be.

Sopranino

Biographies & Memoirs

Ellam, Patrick

Mudie, Colin

Memoirs

UNKNO

Patrick and June Ellam dreamed of running away to sea -- and decided to make a go of it by starting their own yacht delivery business. They set off on a series of adventures that took them from their New York headquarters to Venezuela, Cuba, New Brunswick, London, Paris and all the places in between. 
Not only a narrative of fascinating experiences, this is a practical guide for achieving independence with a maritime enterprise.

Wind Song: Our Ten Years in the Yacht Delivery Business

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

International Marine Publishing Company

Patrick & June started a yacht delivery business that took them from New York to Venezuela, Cuba, Nova Scotia, London, Paris and the Great Lakes in all kinds of boats including an ocean going tugboat and a research vessel aboard which they caught a lightning bolt and measured it for the Air Force. On June's first voyage they did not see land for 17 days. In their spare time they sipped coffee on the side-walks of Paris, strolled on beaches in Bermuda or climbed mountains in Jamaica.

Wind Song

Ellam, June

Minim Books

Royal Flying Corps Technical Notes

Early one morning in 1951 a tiny blue sailboat slipped silently out of Falmouth Harbor in England. Aboard her were two young men, quietly setting out to do something that no one living had ever done before.  For centuries boats had been built as strongly as possible, to withstand the enormous power of the sea. But Patrick Ellam and Colin Mudie had a theory that if you built a boat light enough she would lift over the tops of the waves and so survive.  To prove this they had built the smallest boat that would carry two men and their stores. The wood planking of her hull was barely thicker than a cigarette, and for lightness she had no motor and no transmitting radio.  Then together they set out on a voyage that was to take them to four of the continents of the world and across the Atlantic Ocean before they arrived in New York, their chosen destination, more than a year later.  This is a true tale of high adventure in our time. Of gales and calms and waterspouts at sea. Of landing alone on uninhabited tropical islands. Of hostile knives glinting in the moonlight of deserted docks.  Written by the two men who made the voyage, this book takes you far away from the problems of this century, to a world of sea and sky and clouds and stars; a world in which man by his skill and judgement must make use of the vast elemental forces of nature to bring him safely to the place where he would be.

Travel

iUniverse

New condition, was copied also belonged to Lt. Frederick Ellam who was a pilot in World War II and it contains detailed drawings of 13 different airplanes and instructions on how to maintain them. It also contains details of 11 different engines, unpaged.

Royal Flying Corps Technical Notes: On the Airplanes and Engines of 1916

History

Military

Patrick Ellam was in the British army in World War Two when a notice said Officers are needed to volunteer to drop alone by parachute behind the enemy lines, so he went to Spy School where he learned burglary, forgery, silent killing and other useful things. Then he spent three years with the top secret Special Operations Executive, moving people and things from one place to another. You could call it smuggling. After the war he sailed from England to America in an 18 foot boat and spent ten years moving all kinds of boats from one port to another, which gave him the details that he needed to write this book.

The Judge: A Story of Smuggling

Specialty Travel

iUniverse.com

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