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A•B•Sea A loose-footed lexicon

 by Jack Lagan

lexicon: an alphabetical list of words and their associated definitions; also all the words known by someone about a particular subject

loose-footed: a description of any fore-and-aft sail which is not fitted to a boom and is, therefore, loose at its FOOT and liable to FLOG in an uncontrollable manner; hence, ‘footloose and fancy-free’

loose-footed lexicon: a foot-loose, fancy-free and fore-and-aft alphabetic list of all the words known by Jack Lagan about the sea, seafarers and seafaring; includes words beginning with a, b, c, etc as well as s

 

Jack Lagan is a writer who has been sailing since the 1960s. As a navigator he believes that those who travel on the sea should have one GPS set stowed in the chart table and 1,000 years of nautical exploration stowed in their hearts.

 A•B•Sea is an essential, entertaining guide to the language and lore of 21st century seafarers. Packed with practical advice, this is a dictionary with a difference; many entries are illustrated by passages from classic books of the sea, yet more by the experiences of the author, grand-scale gunk-holing on an American schooner with a European engine and two boxes of incompatible tools.

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