ROBIN A KILROY - BOLEH - MALAY JUNK YACHT- -HODDER & STOUGHTON 1951 1ST ED ILLUS

SINGAPORE TO SALCOMBE - Junk Yacht Boleh is the story of two men: artist and naval war hero Commander Robin Kilroy, DSC, who designed and built her 60 years ago in Singapore before sailing her back to the UK; and Roger Angel, skilled joiner and entrepreneur, who found her an insurance write-off in 1978 and painstakingly brought her back to life in a Rye harbour mud berth.

Illustrated by the author with plan of yact with Authentic record of adventures and misadventures of Malay junk yacht which aroused curiosity and interest in every port she visited on her voyage of 170 sailing days across 15,000 miles of ocean. With list of dry provision requiremens.

Chapter Nineteen and Twenty - Pages 142 - 154 - Port Elizabeth and dreaded Cape Agulhas and Simonstown with illus photos at port at Port Elizabeth, with their mail at Simonstown and aboard Boley at Simonstown. Author thought Cape Province was lovely.

1951 1st edition Hodder & Stoughton illustrated with drawings, photos, maps, diagrams hardback Green cloth boards well-binded, text pages clean, no writing in book,  228 pages, dust cover wear and tears, tape marks and yellowing to end pages and on dustcover, wear to covers of hardback.