The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy"

FROM LONDON TO PARIS, AND BY HARVE ACROSS THE CHANNEL TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT, SOUTH COAST, &c., &c.
By JOHN MACGREGOR, M.A.,
captain of ‘the royal canoe club,’ author of ‘a thousand miles in the rob roy canoe,’ ‘the rob roy on the baltic,’ ‘the rob roy on the jordan,’ &c.
SIXTH EDITION .
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY limited . St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. 1893
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LONDON: printed by william clowes and sons, limited stamford street and charing cross.
In the earlier part of this voyage, and where it was most wished for, along the dangerous coast of France, fine weather came.
Next there was an amphibious interlude to the Paris Exhibition, while the Rob Roy sailed inland.
Thence her course over the sea brought the yawl across the broad Channel (100 miles) to Cowes and its Regattas, and to rough water in dark nights of thunder, until once more in the Thames and up the Medway she was under bright skies again.
Cooking and sleeping on board, the writer performed the whole journey without any companion; and perhaps this log of the voyage will show that it was not only delightful to the lone sailor, but useful to others.
Blackheath, Kent, May , 1880.