Bull City wrote:Has anyone read or seen the new book, Herreshoff: American Masterpieces by Maynard Bray and Claas van der Linde? If so, how did you like it?
Yes, it was fine.
(But I like anything about the Herreshoffs......)
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Bull City wrote:Has anyone read or seen the new book, Herreshoff: American Masterpieces by Maynard Bray and Claas van der Linde? If so, how did you like it?
Tigger wrote:I imagine a good number of us have read the Aubrey/Maturin novels (Master and Commander et al). I'm enjoying the biography of the author, Patrick O'Brian, written by Dean King. Turns out O'Brian is not his real name, and it's not a nom de plume either. He legally changed it after WWII. Why? You'll just have to read for yourself!
kimbottles wrote:Tigger wrote:I imagine a good number of us have read the Aubrey/Maturin novels (Master and Commander et al). I'm enjoying the biography of the author, Patrick O'Brian, written by Dean King. Turns out O'Brian is not his real name, and it's not a nom de plume either. He legally changed it after WWII. Why? You'll just have to read for yourself!
We met O'Brian some years ago. He was not warm and fuzzy. Rather he was quite up tight and guarded.
But we love his books.
Orestes Munn wrote:kimbottles wrote:Tigger wrote:I imagine a good number of us have read the Aubrey/Maturin novels (Master and Commander et al). I'm enjoying the biography of the author, Patrick O'Brian, written by Dean King. Turns out O'Brian is not his real name, and it's not a nom de plume either. He legally changed it after WWII. Why? You'll just have to read for yourself!
We met O'Brian some years ago. He was not warm and fuzzy. Rather he was quite up tight and guarded.
But we love his books.
I have read he was a real jerk. I simply loved the books. Read them once and then listened to them on Audible. I can recommend the reader very highly.
Just finished The Riddle of the Sands. Pretty good for a sailing book.
SemiSalt wrote:I'm reading "Murder on Brittany Shores" by Jean-Luc Bannalec. As a murder mystery, it's nothing out of the ordinary. However it brought to my attention the Glenan, and small archipelago of the south coast of Brittany. It's where the Glenans Sailing School got started.
We all have our favorite destinations for a daysail or overnight. Someplace not too far away, and somewhat interesting. Is your favorite place as nice as this?
BeauV wrote:I’m resurrecting this thread for two reasons.
First: Donn’s new book (Savior) is well worth reading. For obvious reasons, he has the sailing details down cold. He also gets the romance stuff right. It’s well worth reading.
Second: Those of you who read it should be sure to give it a good review on Amazon, Goodreads, and Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc....)
I asked Donn for some reading suggestions, and I suppose we should put them here.
kimbottles wrote:New book from Ron Holland
kimbottles wrote:Remember that Ed guy over on CA? What does he call himself? ‘A Horse of course” or something like that.
Well he is a book dealer, kind of a very high end used book dealer and he found this for me.
I am in heaven. It has been quite a while since I last managed to find a good addition to my yacht design library. Ed really hit the jackpot for me with this one.
I think I am going to be busy for the next couple days.
(The second volume on the right is nothing but foldout plates of lines drawings, layout drawings and other juicy detailed drawings.)
Olaf Hart wrote:Has anyone invited Ed to Scantlings Kim?
“The Future is History” by Masha Gessen