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Title: Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters by Derek Lundy, Michael Tezla ISBN: 1-56511-348-9 Publisher: Highbridge Audio Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (57 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Eeeeek!
Comment: I grew up in the Southern Hemisphere (South Africa) and sailed Hobie 14s on the Cape Coast. You really learn to respect (actually dread is a better way to describe it sometimes) the sea if you sail in these fast little craft. I can only imagine how awesome the Southern Ocean must be. Lundy does an excellent job of describing the events as they unfolded in the 1996/1997 Vendee Globe. It is a truly terrifying account.
A yachtie friend of mine summed this book up really well: if you want to enjoy sailing don't read books like this one. They'll just scare you into never setting sail again. To me this book was awful and captivating at the same time - you just can't put it down, because you know there is going to be this horrible gut wrenching saga taking place in a godforsaken place where the seas are like 'six story buildings' and 'knock downs' are common.
Lundy does his best to delve into the minds of these (in my opinion)crazy competitors. His research on the race, navigation and seamanship in general is obviously excellent. He does seem to know what he is talking about. The technical stuff is mostly fascinating and thorough.
But ultimately you have to do a big Galic shrug of the shoulders if you want to understand the sailors who compete in the Vendee Globe. All of Lundy's research and interviews with the competitors fails in this respect...they're just stark raving bonkers, just accept it!
Buy this book but be warned...get something cheerful to read afterwards.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully written
Comment: This is the best book I have read about long-distance solo racing. It's the first book on the Vendee Globe in English, and it's incredibly well-done. Lundy does a great job of moving the book along with the race, while addressing some of the larger, equally interesting issues about this sort of sailing: what drives these men and women to risk life and limb, what is the role of the sea in the collective human experience. Its structure is sophisticated, and not for the reader he needs to be held by the hand and spoon fed. The introduction of Gerry Roufs at the beginning, with his fate unresolved, was a masterful touch -- it leaves a pall of dread over the book that kept me reading, mesmerized. Lundy never talks down to the reader or over-simplifies; one of the most audacious and courageous points he makes is that this sort of racing, while mind-bogglingly exciting at times, can also be mind-numbingly boring for long stretches. Readers who can't acknowledge this and who need to be constantly dazzled by fireworks and disasters, are advised to go see Star Wars. This is a classic.
Rating: 5
Summary: difficult but worth it
Comment: This book is so full of information it is difficult to get into, but all of the narrative is well worth the effort. It covers so many of the important aspects related to sailing in very difficult conditions. It also relates aspects of sailboat design associated with sailing in dangerous seas.
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Title: A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols ISBN: 0060197641 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Close to the Wind by Pete Goss ISBN: 0786707410 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Proving Ground by G. Bruce Knecht, G.Bruce Knecht ISBN: 0446611859 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing, New Edition by John Rousmaniere ISBN: 0393308650 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race by Rob Mundle ISBN: 0071361405 Publisher: International Marine Publishing Pub. Date: 17 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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