Whilst the Ds and Amazons are at the lake, the Swallows are staying at Pin Mill where their father is to take up a new naval post. They befriend Jim who owns The Goblin a small yacht. He has just left school but is a good sailor and so the Swallows’ mother allows them to go on a short trip with Jim before Father is due at the weekend. Jim breaks one of the cardinal rules and leaves The Goblin in search of petrol and is knocked down by a bus, leaving the Swallows to mind the boat. They don’t have enough experience of tidal water and let the anchor drag as the tide rises and end up crossing the North Sea in a violent storm. Daddy comes to the rescue in a pier head jump in Flushing. Mother is not pleased!
(The Goblin is still alive and well and sailing as Nancy Blackett, based on The River Orwell.)
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