The Onedin Line

‘Frisco Bound (2x8)

: 12, 1972

Elizabeth tells Albert she knows of his dalliance with Carrie Harris, and that she has been to see her. As their sniping and arguments escalate, she tells him that she is thinking of leaving him. James is heading for Frisco (San Francisco) by way of the dreaded Horn (Cape Horn), a dangerous passage feared by sailors, and with good cause. But it does afford a much faster transit time to the Americas. Albert decides to go along, to chart out the voyage and see how he would build a steamship to make the trip. The new apprentice turns up, too: the son of the head of the board of enquiry. But he is not at all dressed for the trip, and David Teale obviously has different ideas to James and Baines as to what he will be doing onboard the ship! He is soon disabused of these notions, the top hat and frock coat exchanged for seaman's garb, his pretty hands cut and chapped, the realities of life at sea making themselves known in no uncertain terms! Albert is concerned about the unnecessarily h