Up Aloft with Old Harry is another wonderful collection of Des Sleightholme's batty observations on the sailing scene.

Wickedly perceptive, Sleightholme attacks pomposity with scarifyinggusto, taking the mickey out of everything and everybody afloat. Suchtopics as leaking boats, dragging anchors, the charms of twin keels,the Fastnet Race, moving house by boat, chartering and, of course, theperils of going aloft, are handled with pitiless relish, while theimprobable yet all too familiar character, Old Harry, appears withregularity like some pantomime devil in wrinkled red tights.

'Sleightholme is the man to make you laugh' Yachting Monthly

'Nobody is safe from Sleightholme's wit and wisdom' Motor Boat & Yachting