Torridons' Triumph

by Marie Muir

To the three young Torridons, Torquil, Jan and Ivor, life is very black indeed. For their father is seriously ill in hospital, and in his absence they discover that his boat-yard business is in a perilous state. The only way they can see it say it is to sell their yacht Cormorant, the pride and joy of all their hearts.
But the Torridons decide to fight back. Cormorant is chartered for a cruise with Torquil as crew, while Jan and Ivor are left to run the sailing school which they have started in an effort to save the family fortunes. Their pupils include two American girls - Lucilla, the pretty, spoilt daughter of wealthy parents, and her cousin Ruth, lame and awkward with an outsize chip on her shoulder.
Jan's struggles to run the house and the yard, and to keep the pupils of the sailing school happy, make an exciting, amusing, and often moving story. Marie Muir has handled all the many different characters with a sure touch, and teen-age girls will enjoy reading about real people who think and act in a convincing way.
(Dustwrapper blurb from 1967 edition)

My edition: Seagull library 1967 with dustwrapper
Not known in a pictorial boards edition

Not known in a Children’s Press edition

Seagull Library Dustwrapper 1967