I have read about 2/3s of the Aubry/Mautrin series and when you read the books you figure that this can't happen..... But it did. The auther went threw logs, after action reports and general history to come up with his stories. He might take liberty with WHEN an action happened to fit his story line but the battles actually happened. Aubry is a composite of several different British Captains. I read a history book on the Napolionic Naval battles earlier in the year. What blew my mind was that the battles in the history book I had already read about in the Aubry/Maturin books. What I thought was fiction or at least fictionalised was not. The Hornblower series is pretty good as well and the movies made for A&E a few years ago are excellent. What these men did was amazing. The old saying about Iron Men in Wood Ships is very, very true. How these men could survive the sea for months and YEARS at sea is amazing. There was one ship that was sent to the Far East for something like 15 years. When it got back the men where NOT paid for their years of service!!!! If you are interested in the sea, sailing and or wee little boats these are good books to read. Later, Dan McCarty *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I think Crowe is gripping his paddle rather tightly in that Time photo. I saw Master and Commander last Saturday and loved it in part for the fact that it credits the audience with some intelligence. It's also the first naval film of the period I can recall that shows the captain's cabin being reassembled after battle (preceding battle, the partitions closing off the captain's cabin were stored away). Regarding repairs at sea, naval vessels of the period typically carried spare spars and other repair materials. In the film, the mainmast was imperfectly repaired, leading to its collapse during the chase of the Acheron. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Daly [SMTP:michaeldaly_at_rogers.com] BTW, the last time I was on board the USS Constitution in Boston, it looked pretty much "perfect". However, there are only a few board feet of wood in that ship that are original. Essentially, the whole vessel has been rebuilt several times over since it was first constructed. *************************************************************************** If you ever visit the Constellation in Baltimore, don't believe the story that it is the original ship. The original, a President-class frigate, was basically scrapped in the mid-19th century and rebuilt as a corvette. Only a small part of the original ship was used in the new ship, mainly to preserve the fiction that the old Constellation was simply being modernized, to get around a Congressional prohibition against new construction. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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