By ordering your discount boat anodes from Anode Outlet you are automatically entered for a chance to win the Blue Bird book – Seven Decades at Sea signed by acclaimed marine photographer Kos Evans!
A few months back the Anode Outlet team bumped into an old photographer friend at the Southampton Boat Show promoting the launch of a very special book she’d illustrated. The publication of Blue Bird – Seven Decades at Sea. This special book includes historic pictures from private collections and written by Tom Cunliffe, the award-winning maritime author, this is a book for all who love ships, the sea and photography.
In 1938, Sir Malcolm Campbell, the greatest speed ace of the 1930s and one of the outstanding characters of the period, commissioned the 100-ft ocean-going motor yacht Blue Bird to go digging for buried treasure in the Pacific. War scuppered the hero’s plans and his yacht ended up ferrying troops off the Dunkirk beaches in the fire-storm of 1940. The story of her next seven decades reflects the changing of the eras: periods of calm with the Renault family are followed by hard times and transatlantic adventures. Finally, the little ship has one of those strokes of luck the sea is always ready to serve up to those prepared to grab them.
She was acquired by Tara Getty, whose vision saw through the shabbiness to the classic she could once again become. Blue Bird’s 3-year restoration earned her top honours at the super yacht awards and Kos’ images of the supremely challenging process of converting the tight confines of a 1930s vessel into a pocket super yacht are remarkable. Cunliffe rattles the tale along with characteristic pace and salty humour, lifting this lovely book far beyond the run of ‘coffee-table’ works about beautiful yachts.
The prize draw will be held on World Book Day – Thursday 3rd March 2011.
Good Luck!
