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\"\"<\/a>In the 1960s, when Hoxton-born Mick Hugo \u2018skinned out\u2019 to sea he was joining\u00a0more than 150,000 other British merchant seamen then serving on ships across the\u00a0world. The Merchant Navy provided a safety valve for a lot of young working class\u00a0men, enabling them to tear up their past and start again. Yet we have very\u00a0little idea of what life was like, \u2018cabined, cribbed, confined\u2019 at sea for long periods of\u00a0time amongst strangers, who became by default, in Hugo\u2019s words, \u2018your adopted\u00a0family\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Skinning Out\u2019 provides a rare and affectionate account of life above and below\u00a0decks, as well as bouts of shore leave mayhem, all described by the writer\u2019s own captivating\u00a0illustrations.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ken Worpole<\/p>\n

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\u2018Skinning Out – To Sea<\/i>\u00a0reads like a message in a bottle penned by Garcia-Marquez, so fantastical is the life it described; but ultimately it is a dispatch from the last of a certain breed of Britons, a first hand account of the men who walked on water.\u2019
\nCaught By The River<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018Written by someone with a sense of wonder and the desire to impart it\u2026a pure kind of folk art, telling a nearly forgotten tale.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u20181960s seafarer Mick Hugo\u2019s brief and lively memoir is classic stuff\u2026an astonishingly beautiful paperback and Sam Blunden\u2019s design is an elegant product.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Morning Star<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the 1960s, when Hoxton-born Mick Hugo \u2018skinned out\u2019 to sea he was joining\u00a0more than 150,000 other British merchant seamen then serving on ships across the\u00a0world. The Merchant Navy provided a safety valve for a lot of young working class\u00a0men, enabling them to tear up their past and start again. Yet we have very\u00a0little idea … Continue reading “SKINNING OUT – TO SEA by Mick Hugo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bowlinebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bowlinebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bowlinebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bowlinebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bowlinebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":72,"href":"https:\/\/bowlinebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/bowlinebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bowlinebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}