Young adult
Asked to leave his floating home, a Scottish hamburger factory ship, Woody Legg is retired to the Old Boathouse, a retreat for unwanted sailors run by a very strict matron, Frauline Stropalotti. Woody and the boys plot to escape on a disused and abandoned sailboat now renamed the Prawn Cocktail.
With the help of the Putney Sewage King, his associates the Bog-Whoppits and the Nincompoops, Woody and his friends wrench the Prawn Cocktail out of a muddy creek and back onto the sea.
They consider themselves to be twenty-first century buccaneers and, along with a worldwide map of Primarni stores, go in search of old and hidden treasures.
Here's what readers have to say about this book....
25.08.2026 It`s fun to read the Tales of a Legless Pirate. Frankly, I couldn`t stop myself laughing. I have a collection of books featuring pirates and this book ranks as one of the best, very suitable for what it was billed, great for 12+ kids and many laughs that really appealed to me at 45 years of age. Well done to the author, what a mind you have!
The first book has the benefit of all your pent-up angst making the second one is very difficult to complete to your satisfaction. You have excelled yourself. You have a gift ! Good job you made your fortune before writing. I am over 70 years and probably read more into it than most 12-year-olds (it’s very funny)!
