I read that book recently, as well as "Perfect Storm"; both were well done. Two other books along those lines, are "Fastnet 10", about the 1979 Fastnet race storm, from which much about liferaft design and boat design was learned, and "Pacific Rescue", about a weather bomb which caught a lot of boaters off-guard and lasted about 3 days. Grab your books, stoke up the fireplace and have a great winter read. For those who like non-nautical books as well, I am finding "Why Buildings Fall Down" to be another great read. Regards, Leander leander_at_worldnet.att.net <- Original Text -> I'm reading a book that is starting to relate to the PaddleWise discussion on "experience": Martin Dugard's "Knockdown" --- the story of the 1998 Sydney-Hobart sailing race in which just about anything that could go wrong did. ...snipped... Vaguely reminiscent of Sebastian Junger's "The Perfect Storm", a much better written book and the reconstruction of the collision of three big storms off the Grand Banks a few years back. Either one makes great reading while the Kokatat Drysuit dries! Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 06:53:01 PST
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