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Foggy



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Foggy wrote:
Can't go wrong with the posts on www.c-brats.com.
Sometimes you learn something, always amusing,
occasionally hilarious.
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You are right on the button with that. It's my morning coffee, my daily lunch and my evening desert, when I can.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Let me recommend some books by David James Duncan: The River Why, River Teeth, and My Story as Told by Water. He has written others less water-oriented, too; see his website.

I'm now reading A Sea Dog's Tale by Peter Muilenberg and will review it for The Ensign (the USPS quarterly). So far it's a fun read.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ivan Doig's Sea Runners ... fictional tale of three indentured workers who escape a Russian work camp in Sitka (I think) and paddle down the Inside Passage and the outside of Vancouver Island in an open dugout canoe, eventually reaching willapa bay, circa 1790.
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Wandering Sagebrush



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AstoriaDave wrote:
Ivan Doig's Sea Runners ... fictional tale of three indentured workers who escape a Russian work camp in Sitka (I think) and paddle down the Inside Passage and the outside of Vancouver Island in an open dugout canoe, eventually reaching willapa bay, circa 1790.


I like a lot of Doig's early works.. Winter Brothers about James Swan and the settling of thr Port Townsent area is a superb read.

I'm not sure that Sea Runners wasn't based on some type of an actual event, probably nothing like the book...

His early autobiography, This House of Sky is very good as well.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am enjoying re-reading our Halcyon Days website. It was written in coves during our years living aboard our C-Dory. We wrote it primarily for folks wondering about living aboard and cruising distances with their C-Dory. You can click on it below.

Now that we have transitioned ashore after years living in a small floating home, it is fun to re-read experiences. It is not a "where to buy gas, where to anchor" tale. More about some great times, and how do you live aboard a boat, without a home, cruising new water all the time. Also, being a geologist, there are stories of geology you might cruise through on your boat. Why, you can cruise right through a meteor impact crater!

Free, sit in your comfy chair, and 'cruise' along on a C-Dory -- and pass a cold winter evening. Even read some kid tales about cruising with folks or grand-parents.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The true story of Americans rowing in the 1936 Berlin olympicshttps://www.amazon.com/Boys-Boat-Americans-Berlin-Olympics/dp/0143125478/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484177611&sr=1-1&keywords=boys+in+the+boat
The Boys in the boat is about how some boys in the Pacific Northwest came together in really tough times,highly recommend.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

chucko wrote:
The true story of Americans rowing in the 1936 Berlin olympicshttps://www.amazon.com/Boys-Boat-Americans-Berlin-Olympics/dp/0143125478/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484177611&sr=1-1&keywords=boys+in+the+boat
The Boys in the boat is about how some boys in the Pacific Northwest came together in really tough times,highly recommend.


Chucko,

That is a great book, true story, and Joe Rantz, one of the main subjects in the story, lived right here in Sequim. It was the main read I took with me on my trip north last summer.

Harvey
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

El and Bill wrote:
I am enjoying re-reading our Halcyon Days website. It was written in coves during our years living aboard our C-Dory. We wrote it primarily for folks wondering about living aboard and cruising distances with their C-Dory. You can click on it below.

Now that we have transitioned ashore after years living in a small floating home, it is fun to re-read experiences. It is not a "where to buy gas, where to anchor" tale. More about some great times, and how do you live aboard a boat, without a home, cruising new water all the time. Also, being a geologist, there are stories of geology you might cruise through on your boat. Why, you can cruise right through a meteor impact crater!

Free, sit in your comfy chair, and 'cruise' along on a C-Dory -- and pass a cold winter evening. Even read some kid tales about cruising with folks or grand-parents.


We have done just as you describe several times & know we will again. Your sharing has enriched our lives & we appreciate & thank you for doing so.

Best Wishes,

Jay & Jo-Lee

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am re-reading "Halcyon Days Cruising America" on the Kindle APP. Great read and prep for a future trip around the "Great Loop". Thanks Bill and El.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great Story

Book Title - Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography
NEWLYWED COUPLE HOMESTEAD AMONG SAN JUAN ISLANDS

http://old.seattletimes.com/special/centennial/september/photo/burn.html

June Burn and her husband Farrar enjoying first hand living and not surrendering to the routines of a workaday world. Through the years they had some high and glorious adventures, which included homesteading a San Juan Island, teaching Eskimos near Siberia, and exploring the United States by donkey cart with a baby aboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojOI4B4mj8k
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reading lifes a ditch about ICW,and two waterway guides Chesapeake and Norfolk to Jacksonville.
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Rick from Maine



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:15 am    Post subject: Winter Reading Reply with quote

"Into the Raging Sea" by Rachel Slade is a riveting account of the El Faro sinking. The author has included the conversations on the bridge from the 26 hrs before the sinking as well as many interviews. The number of factors involved in the Captain's course decision is mind boggling. The book gives one a new perspective on the maritime industry.
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Marco Flamingo



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just started In the Heart of the Sea, the story of the whaling vessel Essex sunk by a sperm whale (a true story that inspired Herman Melville's ending of Moby Dick). Although the story of the Essex has been written about in the past, there was a recently discovered (1980's) text written by the cabin boy that shed new light on to the months that the few survivors spent in whale boats.

Lots of interesting background and history, but then the story starts out in February of 1821 with a sailing vessel changing coarse off of the Chilean coast to inspect what appears to be an abandoned whale boat. As they pass by, they can see that it is littered with human bones. Not skeletons. Bones.

Just in time for Halloween.

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Clive Cussler the Numa Series of books. Adventures aboard a really tricked out ship.
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