[Paddlewise] FW: ha hemmm!

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A Hornblower fan?  So appropriate for this group!

Whadya think . . .  could a thesis be written comparing Horatio   Hornblower
and Clancy's Jack Ryan as antiheros thrust upon the historical stage of
greatness?

And did the crews use a Greenland stroke when towing through the   doldrums?
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Well, they used narrow-bladed paddles -- uh, oars.

I haven't read Clancy. As for Hornblower, he is a hero to just about
everyone but himself. It's more interesting to me to compare him to
O'Brian's Jack Aubrey, who is in many ways Hornblower's opposite:
self- confident, sensual, musical, poor at math, and so forth. Of
course, both are superb seamen and tacticians. And the authors of
both characters were/are experienced sailors and good researchers.
Forester actually got the idea for the first Hornblower novel while
reading the Naval Chronicle during a trip on his sailboat.

Both characters, by the way, are based in part on historical
figures such as Edward Pellew (Hornblower's captain in the
Indefatigable), who as a 19-year-old lieutenant took command of
his sloop of war during the battle of Lake Champlain after his
captain and first lieutenant were wounded.

Chuck Holst

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