Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat

✍ Scribed by Chris Stewart

• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 104
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Chris Stewart had a long and eclectic list of jobs. From some of the most glamorous careers -- he was original drummer in Genesis - to the more offbeat - a sheep shearer and circus performer - he had done it all...or almost all. So when he is offered the chance to captain a sailboat in the Greek islands one summer, something he had never done before, he jumps at the chance. Ever the optimist, Stewart is undaunted by the fact that he'd never actually sailed before!So begins the hilarious and wild adventures of Three Ways to Capsize a Boat. From setting the boat on fire not once, but several times in the Aegean Sea to his not-so-grand arrival in Spetses to meet the owners of the boat (who says it isn't graceful to plow into the docks as a means of coming to a stop?), Stewart quickly catches the sailing bug. By the end of the summer, as he is facing the dreary prospect of going back to sheep shearing, he jumps at the chance to be part of a crew to follow Viking...