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Re: O'Brian vs Forester
From: Steven Tripp
Date: 2001 Jul 12, 7:14 PM

On 7/13/01 7:39 AM, "nigel_gardner"  wrote:

> The lighter side of lunars one might say.
>
> I was talking to a fellow in Beaufort NC a couple of months ago who thought
> that Alexander Kent was more highly regarded in the US than O'Brian, being
> pretty unsophisticated myself I enjoy them all.
>
>
> NG
>
I just finished Blue at the Mizzen and was disappointed.  I had the feeling
that O'Brian was not a sailor (which he was not), and his descriptions of
maneuvering an unpowered ship were na�ve.

He describes one ship dead in the doldrums while another approaches it
(how?).  The two ships then move in tandem (with no wind!).  No sailor would
write like this.

Steve T.

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