Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Floating Home
If he is a bad sailor he could get more pleasure from a barge than from an ordinary yacht of greater draught. The barge can choose her water she can run into the smooth places that lie between the banks of the complicated Thames estuary. She can thread the Essex and Suffolk tidal rivers the Crouch, the Roach, the Blackwater, the Colne, the Stour, the Orwell, the Deben, the Alde, are all open to her, and are delightfully wild and unspoiled; she can sit upright upon a sandbank till a blow is over. Many people who could afford yachting and are drawn to it persistently think that it is not for them, because they are 'bad sailors.' If they tried barging on the most broken coast in England - say between Lowestoft and Whitstable -they would be very pleasantly undeceived, unless indeed their case is hopeless. This book, however, is not written to recruit the world of yachtsmen, but to show how a home - a ?oating home on the sea for winter as well as summer, not a tame house boat-hand a yacht may be combined at a saving of cost to the householder.
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