Down Channel in the "Vivette"

Down Channel in the "Vivette" written by Edward Keble Chatterton (1878-1944), was published in London in 1910. (262 pages)

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Preface:
MOST of the best logs remain unprinted. I heard the other day of the cruise of a small yacht, whose dimensions are such that she would make a nice, convenient-sized
craft for sailing about on the Serpentine. She went away from her home port for her annual summer outing, and came back after some weeks. All the time she was sailed entirely single-handed, with only her owner aboard. When she returned some one asked him where he had been. He answered that he had been down the Channel, round Land's End, and across to Ireland.
"Have any adventures?" inquired his friend.
"No — just ordinary cruising."
"How did you get on in the Irish Channel? Plenty of wind?"
"Yes, plenty of wind."
"How long were you crossing?"
"Oh — not a quick passage. You see," he explained reluctantly, "I was hove-to for two days during that breeze — you remember?"
That is the type of yachtsman — and there are many of them — who would as soon think of publishing their logs as of publishing their private diaries. It is a justifiable question for the reader who takes up the present book to ask: "Then, why do you not follow so excellent an example when you have done less than they?" I answer that, lacking the essential modesty which characterises these splendid sailor-men, I have dared to rush into print where angelic yachtsmen fear to tread, in the hope that they may be induced to spin their much better yarns for the interest and benefit of the least adventurous. Good wine needs no bush, but a good yarn does need publicity: otherwise it dies with the man, and his interesting exploits are buried with him. There is not a supply of these published logs sufficient to meet the demands of most sailing men, who enjoy nothing better than to read the experiences of other amateur sea-farers. Of course there is the Superior Person in the yacht club as there is everywhere else, and to him I know that this little book can make no appeal. But I venture to hope that those others with whom I enjoy a similarity of tastes, and a sympathetic interest in the matters which are herewith recorded, may find some little pleasure in reading what I have set forth. At least, perhaps, they may find some
pleasure in glancing at the illustrations, for the making of which I have again to thank my friend and cruising-mate, Mr. Norman S. Carr
May 1910.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter I. From the Crouch to the Medway
Chapter II. From the Medway to Ramsgate
Chapter III. From Ramsgate to Newhaven
Chapter IV. From Newhaven to Hamble
Chapter V. From Hamble to Poole
Chapter VI. From Poole to Weymouth
Chapter VII. From Weymouth to Dartmouth
Chapter VIII. From Dartmouth to Salcombe
Chapter IX. From Salcombe to Plymouth Sound
Chapter X. From Plymouth Sound to Fowey
Chapter XI. From Fowey to Falmouth and Back
Chapter XII. From Fowey to Salcombe
Chapter XIII. From Salcombe to Torquay
Chapter XIV. From Torquay to Lulworth
Chapter XV. From Lulworth to Swanage and Hamble