Book description
In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob,
set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked
easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them, as he
knew how to mend the engine. And this is their story.
Over four long months of applied bickering in a vessel no bigger
than a London taxi, they visited most of the geographically
interesting restaurants on the Baltic seaboard. They sailed, over,
and, even at one point, onto the mysterious heart of the Nordic world.
They pushed themselves to the very limits of human endurance, before
finally agreeing to wash their sleeping bags on a cool cycle at number six.
To the Baltic with Bob is the full account of their stirring journey
through the longest heat wave the frozen north has ever suffered; of
three men in search of the answer to a troubling question: can you
really outmanoeuvre a mid-life crisis by running away to sea?
Griff Rhys Jones was born in 1953. He was educated at Brentwood
school and Cambridge University. On the way to becoming a writer he
worked as a security guard, a petrol-pump attendant and a television
star.
