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19-12-2017, 11:25
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Fairlie Scotland UK
Boat: Southern Cross 31
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Loose Cannon On Deck
Loose cannon on deck is the whole book not just the log book, this is a big book, of the whole story.
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19-12-2017, 11:41
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: Van DeStat Super Dogger 31'
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
Care to elaborate...
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19-12-2017, 12:55
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
What confuses me, is that in Colonial English "cannon" can be singular or plural, so I don't know if he's talking about just one hazard, or a whole battery of them. And if they're all moving about, are they still considered a battery of cannon? As opposed to, you know, a horde or something?
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20-12-2017, 15:08
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Join Date: Jul 2012
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
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Originally Posted by IslandHopper
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None of it makes any sense to me and the link to Amazon doesn't work. 
Al, S/V Finlandia
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20-12-2017, 16:48
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
Well there is 4 minutes of my life that I will never get back 
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20-12-2017, 17:01
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
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Originally Posted by captlloyd
Well there is 4 minutes of my life that I will never get back |
Yeah, can I get a refund? Tried to read the intro...too bad and cliche to get thru...and painfully obviously written by someone with little knowledge of sailing.
Is the lady on the front cover supposed to be levitating?
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20-12-2017, 17:21
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Houston
Boat: '76 Allied Seawind II, 32'
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
My brain hurts from reading as much of the trial copy as I could......
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20-12-2017, 17:29
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Australia
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
Well haven't started reading it yet so might have to get a backup for the flight lol
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20-12-2017, 17:42
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Toronto, Ontario or Bahamas
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
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Originally Posted by atlantical
Loose cannon on deck is the whole book not just the log book, this is a big book, of the whole story. |
Are you the author ? If so, I strongly recommend you hire a professional editor to correct the atrocious grammar.
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20-12-2017, 19:13
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: On the boat WhooHoo!! In Corpus Christi, TX
Boat: 1982 Cape Dory 36 Hull #78
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
2 minutes is all it took. Couldn’t go any further with all the grammatic errors.
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20-12-2017, 20:16
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea
Boat: FP Belize Maestro 43
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
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Originally Posted by SSgtPitt
2 minutes is all it took. Couldn’t go any further with all the grammatic errors.
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Punctuation, grammar and spelling are all so bad as to make it unreadable to me after the first few pages.
Without a major re-write by a competent editor, I doubt that anyone will be able to get through the whole book.
Fortunately, I only downloaded the trial extract. Even free, I wouldn't waste my time downloading the whole book.
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20-12-2017, 22:39
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: On the boat - Petersburg, Alaska for the winter
Boat: 1999 Pacific Seacraft 40
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
Autobiography? 
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20-12-2017, 23:35
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Re: Loose Cannon On Deck
I think we will consider the book having being reviewed and commented on.
Thread will now be closed.
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