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A sail in a forest : Moonraker in the Baltic (1961)

by Peter Pye

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A sail in a forest : Moonraker in the Baltic
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1961
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Peter Pye
Anne Pye
Moonraker (29-foot British gaff-cutter)
Biscaya (Swedish sail training ketch)
Herzogin Cecilie
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Skagen, Denmark
Limfiord, Denmark
Christiansø, Denmark
Mariehamn, Finland
Åland, Finland
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Battle of Lumparsund
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To the little birchwood
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"Thousands of miles of forest, tens of thousands of islands set in a tideless sea," my friend's voice was almost lyrical and the room suddenly filled with sound, Sibelius' tones of light and shade painting a picture in my mind of the land of the Kalevala legend: a rough-hewn land where men with axes attacked the endless trees and rode logs down swift-flowing rivers: a northern land where the summer sun dipped briefly below the horizon and rose immediately to start another day.

Chapter one. The letter from Kotka.
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When we first thought of sailing to the Gulf of Finland I wanted to explore the coast around Riga and Tallinn about which Dr Arthur Ransome wrote in Racundra's First Cruise. I even hoped to be able to pull a string or two, but after some delay a friend wrote:

Their refusal can best be put this way: having read The Riddle of the Sands they have been so impressed by what can be done by one small boat that they have no intention of allowing such a hornet within twelve miles of their peace-loving Republic.
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