Word: gourock
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...grey and grimy harbor district, which looks like any Clydeside port, the dingy shops of ship's chandlers, fish & oyster packers and sailmakers line the narrow streets; old-country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef...
BLUE WATER - Arthur Sturges Hildebrand-Harcourt ($3.00). The record of a 5,000-mile cruise from Gourock on the Clyde to the isles of Greece in a 19-ton yacht, the Caltha, under sail. The record of the sort of thing that all suppressed adventurers dream about whenever they pass the window of Thomas Cook & Son, and only the lucky and courageous few dare translate into reality. Blue water, grey water, storms and calms, the Balearic Isles, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Cartagena, Alicante, Civita Vecchia, Athens, Constantinople and its bubble-domed mosques, the men that go down to the sea in sailing...
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