Book review: Long Lost Log chronicles one man's adventures on the seas

Michael Chapman Pincher left school at the age of 17 to work as a stagehand in London’s West End, but disenchanted, he then ran away to sea and his book chronicles his adventures on the waves. 

Michael Chapman Pincher. Picture: Byron Newman

‘I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life’

A line from John Masefield’s epic poem ‘Sea Fever’ comes to mind as I read this seafaring yarn by a complete novice.