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jwilliams
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Initially Posted - 02/25/2003 : 12:53:00

Hi All,

For Christmas my buddy Paul gave me "The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told", edited by Christopher Caswell. The title is no lie. I have been amazed, touched, amused and uplifted...and I'm only half way thru! Overall I understand that being obsessed about sailboats is hardwired into men's souls.

There are 27 stores, some fiction, some not, including Shakelton's lifeboat voyage to South Georgia Island on the James Caird, Tristan Jones, Joshua Slocum, Lord Cochrane, Sterling Hayden and Herman Melville.

It would be a great gift. (but sneak a read first) About $25 hardcover.

Jim Williams
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Tray
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Response Posted - 02/25/2003 : 14:31:37

I concur. I started reading it last week. So far it has been great.

Tray
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dgabel
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Response Posted - 02/25/2003 : 16:56:58

Same here. Wonderful book.

Dave Gabel
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 02/25/2003 : 21:03:16

"Tristan Jones" Boy! That takes me back. I read his book <u>A Steady Trade</u> and laughed my @$$ off. At first it was so bizzare I didn't think it was true. But a friend of mine assured me it was. Don't remember the name of the other book of his I read.

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Ben, FL s/v Chick-a-pea C250wk
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gerdo
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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 14:50:39

Bought that at a yard sale about five years ago loved it.

Have you read "North to the night?" it is about a vagabond sailor who sailed to the artic and got iced in on purpose. Great book and great photos. He gave a lecture in Annapolis and I followed up with the book.

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 15:19:08

I have fifteen of the 16-17 that Tristan wrote. Very entertaining reading.

Did any one else shed a tear when Nelson died?

Trivia question of the day, Who was Nelson?

Arlyn C-250 W/B #224
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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 16:18:04

Admiral Lord Nelson? The "Kiss me Hardy" guy on top of the column in Picadilly? BTW, item of local interest, Capt. Hardy was an active pain in the a** here in LI Sound during the Revolution.

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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 18:01:11

Sorry Charles - your geography is a bit off! <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> Nelson's column is in Trafalgar Square. The statue of Eros (or Cupid to you younger fellows!!) is in Piccadilly Circus (not Piccadilly Avenue). 'Tis rumored that what Nelson said to Hardy as he lay dying was "Kismet, Hardy" (or "fate").
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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 18:29:05

Hey guys....the answer is related to Tristan Jones...

Arlyn C-250 W/B #224
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JimB517
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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 18:50:04

Nelson was his one eyed dog. Featured in "Seagulls in my Soup".

I think I have all of his books. My favorites are "A Steady Trade", "Heart of Oak", "Ice" and "Incredible Voyage".

My overall favorite sailing author is Bernard Moitessier. My favorite of his books are "Sailing to the Reefs", "The Long Way", and "Tamata and the Alliance". Those are 3 of his five books, the other one - "Cape Horn, the Logical Route" I have backordered from Amazon and "A Sea Vagabond's World" is not quite so interesting since it is mostly ablut how to live a subsistence existance on a coral atol.

These men are my role models in sailing. Other favorite sailing authors: Herb Payson, Jim Moore, Peter Nicols. I think I have just about every cruising and sailing book ever written. I also have "North to the Night" and enjoyed it very much - but that is something I would never set out to do.

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 18:50:48

Of course we know who Nelson is, we are just pretending not to.
(Hint, he had 3 legs)...

Enjoyable stuff... "ICE" by Tristan Jones... and almost all of his other stuff. A world-class yarnspinner of the old school.

Any of the 'Serrafin' books by Lin and Larry Pardy...

Currently maintaining two holes in the water...'77 Venture 23 and new to the family,
'78 Catalina 25

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ronrryan
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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 19:34:11

My favorites, which have been read and re-read to being dogeared, are books by the English writer Maurice Griffiths, the editor for many years of the greatest yachting magazine ever, "Yachting Monthly", and also a designer of many small cruising boats, usually for shallow waters. Some titles are: "Little ships and shoal waters", "The Magic of the swatchways" (what we would call creeks or estuaries), "Around the cabin table", "Swatchways and little ships". There are others. These are available in the states and in paperback quite reasonably. You might find them a good read, fair winds, ron srsk #2343 Orion 1981 in SW FL

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 02/26/2003 : 21:03:32

I forgot that Nelson had only 3 legs.

I will search for Maurice Griffiths.

Speaking of shoal waters, another great book is "The Riddle of the Sands" by Erskine Childers, written in 1908 or somewhere, perhaps the first spy novel, about two sailing yachtees who stumble on plans for a possible invasion of England from a very shallow and tide plagued coast. Available in paperback on Amazon, it's very exciting if you can get into the older style of words and storytelling. Written long before outboards existed!

Childers was later executed for sailing and gunrunning into Ireland.

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