Sailing magic carpet2/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Print and digital editions are available through Magazines Direct – where you can also find the latest deals. Visit the Yachting Monthly Book Club for more of the best sailing books released this year.Įnjoyed reading The Sea is a Magic Carpet: Book Review?Ī subscription to Yachting Monthly magazine costs around 40% less than the cover price. We may want to remember the sentences from this, his first book, where he writes that his voyages ‘proved to me that it is still possible to find at sea some of the qualities that go to make up the boy’s day dream from the top of the ocean cliff still possible to understand the mystical excitement of Conrad possible to find one’s own Treasure Island. ![]() This was followed by some studies of collision avoidance at sea and then a stream of highly regarded works of naval history, novels and World War II studies.Įventually he settled in Woodbridge, Suffolk, where he sailed a gaff-rigged 1900 Norfolk shrimper replica on the River Deben. ![]() Peter Padfield’s later career took off with his strong defence of Captain Stanley Lord in The Titanic and the Californian. The change in his life, it seems, was not so much from steam to sail but to the intellectual adventures of research and writing. In The Sea is a Magic Carpet he includes one ‘standard P&O voyage (potentially of much greater interest now than then) and further chapters of exploration in the Pacific. The voyage on Mayflower II was the beginning of a change in Padfield’s life. It was a pleasant life and on the passenger ships it was fun, but it had little to do with sailoring, just as after a time the ports had little to do with foreign countries.’ ‘If ever I got my feet wet,’ he writes of his life as a navigating officer, ‘it must have been the crew scrubbing the decks. By the time he happened upon a magazine article describing Alan Villiers plan to sail the replica Mayflower II across the Atlantic he was in his mid-20s and on the verge of boredom. He was educated in England and then trained for the merchant navy on HMS Worcester before joining P & O. Padfield was born in India in 1932 to an Army family. ![]() ‘The taking of a modern steamship round the world (though one would not minimise its responsibilities) has not the same quality of intimacy with nature, which after all is the indispensable condition to the building up of an art…’ June – October: Magic Carpet sails daily out of Edgartown Harbor on Martha’s Vineyard December – April: Magic Carpet will be available for charter in the Caribbean.Ĭome for a sail on this beautiful and bristol-maintained yacht, enjoy the comfort and style of a classic wooden yawl.Peter Padfield begins his first book with a quote from Conrad’s The Mirror of the Sea, comparing the experience of sail and steam. Catering to individuals, couples and families, she is also available for private daysails for groups up to 18. Magic Carpet is available for half day, full day, sunset and overnight charters. The feeling is both nautical and homey, the traditional layout is charming and distinctive. Roomy, well lit and ventilated accomodations adorned with Honduras mahogany and a teak and holly cabin sole, welcome you below. Her masthead yawl split rig enables a variety of sail configurations to suit all winds. Winner of the Cruising Club of America’s 1959 Marblehead-Halifax race, Magic Carpet effortlessly reaches to speeds of 10 knots, making her a memorable day-sailor and a venerable ocean-sailor. era keel/centerboard yawl which was designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built by the well regarded German builders, Matteisen and Paulsen, in 1959 and is built to the highest specifications. ![]()
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