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21-09-2016, 15:51
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Idea for longer trip crews
Everybody bring the best book you ever read and pass them around through the journey
Happy Sails!
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21-09-2016, 16:10
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Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
I think yours is a great idea!
I can, however, see some challenges here.
A challenge can be most people today do not read books. Many read crap books.
I, for one, would not like to read a pulp fiction novel, even if someone found it great.
So, I am in if you sail with a group of educated and well read people.
I am out if you consider the average.
And how do I know all this wisdom? Well, I live on book swaps in the marinas ... ;-)
Not sure many people could read or understand 'Thinking Fast and Slow' or 'The Selfish Gene' either ... ;-) ;-)
HOW ABOUT ... they bring their favourite beer ... huh ???
Love,
b.
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21-09-2016, 16:31
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jul 2014
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
Stock the boat with classics of literature that no one has ever before had the time to read.
War and Peace
A tale of Two Cities
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Etc.
And for fun...
Jaws
The Deep
Hoyles Book of Card Games (with a deck of cards)
Etc.
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21-09-2016, 17:00
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Location: PORTUGAL
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
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Originally Posted by Steady Hand
Stock the boat with classics of literature that no one has ever before had the time to read.
War and Peace
A tale of Two Cities
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Etc.
Read those by the time I was 16.. also the Iliad, Rudyard Kipling and quite a few others..
And for fun...
Jaws
The Deep
I'm with Barnakiel on these..
Hoyles Book of Card Games (with a deck of cards)
Make sure its an Ocean crossing.. else they'll jump ship at the 1st port.
A 64GB stick with some good movies and music is much better.. and headphones.
Etc.
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21-09-2016, 17:06
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
Add Marcel Proust to yourlibrary . For the non-literary folks it'll also help resolve insomnia and keep the watch schedule.
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21-09-2016, 19:09
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
The way society is headed you better bring lots of illustrated novels for those who don't read.
S/V B'Shert
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21-09-2016, 19:59
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
I do read a ton when under sail. Mostly due to space limitations I read ebooks and might bring along two paperbacks. Of course I swap them out when we hit the marina. Nice thing about the classics steady hand mentioned is that the copyright is expired so you can download them for free.
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21-09-2016, 20:13
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Location: Halifax
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
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Originally Posted by SV DestinyAscen
Add Marcel Proust to yourlibrary . For the non-literary folks it'll also help resolve insomnia and keep the watch schedule.
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Brilliance! Playing Wagner also helps with the watch schedule and rouses any malingering sleepyheads.
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21-09-2016, 20:14
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: USA & Argentina
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steady Hand
Stock the boat with classics of literature that no one has ever before had the time to read.
War and Peace
A tale of Two Cities
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Etc.
And for fun...
Jaws
The Deep
Hoyles Book of Card Games (with a deck of cards)
Etc.
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What about
Karl Marx, Das Kapotal
Milton Friedman - any book
Selected works of Mao Tse Tung - full volume set
Adam's
Writings by Leon Trotsky
Mutiny on the bounty
Aristotle
Plato
Tsun Tset Su - Art Of War
Some of the books I read by age 15. Makes for great discussions and debate that can last for years.
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21-09-2016, 20:17
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
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Originally Posted by Brob2
Brilliance! Playing Wagner also helps with the watch schedule and rouses any malingering sleepyheads.
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I never listen to Wagner out of principle. Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. To name a few. Arias of all genre - great to sing along with.
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21-09-2016, 20:30
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
How about Captain Cooks' Journals? We have "keeper" books on board, and they are an eclectic collection.
A.
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21-09-2016, 20:32
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Location: Halifax
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
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Originally Posted by GoingWalkabout
I never listen to Wagner out of principle. Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. To name a few. Arias of all genre - great to sing along with.
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I assume then that you also avoid von Karajan recordings out of principle? A shame as some of his Haydn and Beethoven recordings are legendary. I use to avoid Nestle products out of principle, but one day I bought a Kit Kat and still slept well that night. I've had a few more since then.
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21-09-2016, 21:01
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
I am buying books off the Best 100 Novels of all-time and their Cliff Notes. Since the internet is not readily accessible, it is nice to have the Cliff Notes to explain the stuff you would normally Google.
I was in Cuba reading Great Expectations. It was a rough read because it was so old (and difficult to get internet), but a terrific tale.
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22-09-2016, 01:10
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#14
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Join Date: Jun 2014
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Boat: Currently Shopping, & Heavily in LUST!
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
I'm working on John Muir, the naturalist's stuff right now. Specifically MY First Summer In The Sierras http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32540
Found it at the Gutenberg Project, where there are all kinds of books available for free downloading --> www.Gutenberg.org
Plus of course it's availble on Facebook, & Twitter... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg
BTW, some of the comments in this thread are intriguing. I may even have to start another thread due to some of them Such as those on the wisdom of keeping a lot of Comic Books onboard (yeah, paraphrased I know). LOL, er, Groan!
If you want a lot of "free" Movies & TV Shows for viewing, & download (for your hard drive), there's:
www.tubeplus.ag
www.viooz.ac <-- Be advised, I'm told that this one runs some malware at times.
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22-09-2016, 06:14
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 6,103
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Re: Idea for longer trip crews
I have enjoyed reading the posted comments so far. Good wit, good reading, and good advice.
Boatman's (wise and funny as always) comment about the preference for a thumb drive with movies (and headphones) struck me as a particularly good one. An inexpensive ($120) tablet loaded with movies and including headphones for each person (think airline freebies) could be a very popular item for guests and crew.
The availability of the classics on Gutenberg is a good one too. I have downloaded a few on my iPad for this very purpose (to have on future voyages) but I can see how that would be good to have on a "boat tablet" too, instead of many paperbacks.
The list of books and movies made me think, with a bit of mischief or dark humor, which books and movies should NOT be on the boat.
In order to keep this thread on a positive note, I will start a new thread on that topic.
More on that in another thread, posted here: http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...86#post2218686
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