We didn't mean to go to sea

By Arthur Michell Ransome

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

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.