The Voyage of the Aegre
BY NICHOLAS GRAINGER, VINYCOMB PRESS, £15.95
This tale charts a young couple’s voyage to becoming small boat offshore adventurers. In the 1970s Julie and Nicholas Grainger sailed their 21ft wooden Shetland fishing boat from Scotland to American Samoa. This was before modern instruments and GPS, and although the story of their time afloat, including their capsize off Tahiti which left the boat dismasted, is a gripping read about survival at sea, it is the details of readers will find the most fascinating.
