We didn't mean to go to sea

Description:

The Swallows, visiting on the east coast of England, stand watch on a small cruising sailboat for the owner and drag anchor and cross the Channel in a gale. Wonderful detail about sailing, and the fact that it takes place 85 years ago doesn't matter.

subjects: Sea stories,  Sailing,  Fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Navigation,  Yachts,  Children's fiction,  Sailing, fiction,  England, fiction,  Swallows (Fictitious characters),  Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome),  Adventure stories,  Swallows, fiction,  Boats and boating, fiction,  Europe, fiction,  Boats and boating

Places: Ipswitch,  English Channel,  Holland

Times: 1936