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A review by ljrinaldi
Baggywrinkles: A Lubber's Guide to Life at Sea by Lucy Bellwood
5.0
This basically is what it says on the tin, a lubbers guide to life at sea. It is a cartoonist guide to what she learned when she first went off to live on a replica of the Lady Washington, a sailing ship from the 1700s. She learned how to haul the lines to put up the sails, and how to climb up to the crows nest.
In this little volume, she discusses how people tried to cure scurvy and what tattoos on sailers mean.
She has a lot of humor, in each section, and it was a lot of fun to read. I knew, for example, why the British sailers were called limeies, because they sucked on limes to prevent scurvy, but did not know that limes had less vitamin C them lemons, and weren't as effective.
Nothing is better than getting a taste of what she does, and so, here is a link to another trip she took on a sailing ship.
Fun stuff.
Highly recommended if you've ever wondered what being on one of those old fashioned sailing ships would be like. Makes you almost feel as though you should go to sea.
In this little volume, she discusses how people tried to cure scurvy and what tattoos on sailers mean.
She has a lot of humor, in each section, and it was a lot of fun to read. I knew, for example, why the British sailers were called limeies, because they sucked on limes to prevent scurvy, but did not know that limes had less vitamin C them lemons, and weren't as effective.
Nothing is better than getting a taste of what she does, and so, here is a link to another trip she took on a sailing ship.
Fun stuff.
Highly recommended if you've ever wondered what being on one of those old fashioned sailing ships would be like. Makes you almost feel as though you should go to sea.