Excerpt from A Singer From the Sea"'Tell me, my old friend, tell me whyYou sit and softly laugh by yourself.''It is because I am repeating to myself, Write! writeOf the valiant strength,The calm,brave bearingOf the sons of the sea.'" - French Rowing Song."And that is why I have written this bookOf the things that live in your noble hearts.You are really the authors of it.I have only put into wordsThe frank simplicity of your sailor life." - Guillaume De La Laudelle.From Padstow Point to Lundy Race is one of the wildest and grandest portions of the Cornish coast, and on it there is always somewhere a tossing sea, a stiff breeze above, and a sucking tide below.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.