Three Ways Capsize a Boat is the latest book from Chris Stewart, of Driving Over Lemons fame. It tells of his adventures as a sailor prior to becoming a farmer in Spain. When Chris is first offered the captaincy of a boat that’s due to sail in the Greek isles, you fear for him, as he’s never sailed before. You fear for him even more so when he ends up in the drink during his first sailing misadventures. However, Chris then signs up for a more comprehensive sailing course, and does gain more and more confidence. Yet when he gets to Greece, he finds that the boat has still not been repaired, and so he has to use his initiative to get things back on course, which he does with aplomb, although the boat does end up with an engine that is rather too combustible… Still, the placid waters of the Greek isles are nothing compared to the torments that Chris faces in his next sailing adventure: following Leif Eiricksson’s epic voyage across the tempestuous North Atlantic, which involves more than a few ‘perfect storms’. With raging seas and plunging temperatures, even the simplest tasks, such as taking a pee, are quite epic… Oh, and then Chris manages to dump his long suffering girlfriend Ana into the drink… Chris Stewart has a reputation of being quite a witty author, although I’m afraid he never threatened to make me laugh out loud. However, this is still quite an engaging book from a man whose other claim to fame is not quite making the grade as the first drummer of the band Genesis. And, for a change, this travel writer actually does some travelling in this book! What’s best about Three Ways Capsize a Boat is Chris’s account of his transition from landlubber to seasoned sailor, so one suspects that this book would appeal most of all to the sailing fraternity.