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Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 15:32
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Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Much of the framed art in my boat is limited edition prints of the original paintings for the cover art for the series, by Geoff Hunt. The cover art for "The Mauritius Command" hangs over the galley...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 15:24
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Oh, sure ya didn't mean it like that! ;)


:flowers::flowers::flowers:
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 11:00
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

I can see why, after my previous confusion!
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 08:06
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Both by the wind and sailing large, eh? O'Brian fan!
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-02-2014, 07:26
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

I'm so jealous! It will be more of an O'Brian year though, I read pretty fast and there's no way I could read all his work in a month! A shame to start with Vol. 16 when the beginning is so good. The...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 29-01-2014, 20:35
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Melville is fun! How about Henry Dana?
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-01-2014, 15:29
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Yes, Aubrey suffers 42 separate wounding incidents, many of them multiple wounds. Just read the Butcher's Bill!


Even Maturin is shocked after making a thorough accounting of his wounds later in...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 28-01-2014, 10:57
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

She IS easy on the eyes. And so is he! Therein lies my problem with Hornblower, too goodie two shoes. He's not real. Aubrey is a fallible man. And I'll note he also missing an ear, heavily scarred...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-01-2014, 19:52
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Fixed that for ya!


I think we all know his one true love was his first mate, pictured above!
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-01-2014, 17:04
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Lol! You know you got a chuckle out of that one...


I mean he married a shrewish unattractive woman just so he wouldn't be bothered to come home to her after all...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-01-2014, 17:01
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

That article makes me wonder why he was constantly making that noise...





:devil::devil::devil:
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-01-2014, 16:51
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

I don't know where this came from, and it's juvenile and silly, but it sums up my thoughts on Hornblower pretty well. That guy was a pouf!


Horatio Hornblower - Uncyclopedia, the content-free...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-01-2014, 00:26
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Puhlease! Aubrey would crush Hornblower like an insect, if he could be bothered too.


:popcorn:
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 19:51
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Sure! They are not to my knowledge streaming live, you still have to get a DVD by snail mail the old fashioned way.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 19:37
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

His biographies are very different in flavor from Aubrey/Maturin. Still very much O'Brien though.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 19:33
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Yup. I must have read everything he ever wrote at least half a dozen times. If you haven't read them, The Golden Ocean & The Unknown Shore are a fascinating novelized account of Commodore Anson's...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 18:46
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Irish on one side. He also famously abandoned a wife and children. Hence the reason for privacy about his personal history. A truly strange bird, but certainly one of the great authors of the last...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 18:42
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Not so many interviews this length with such a famously private person.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a4b16lOYR6k&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Da4b16lOYR6k
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 18:37
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

The film is made up of material taken from the first book and the fourteenth book in a series of twenty one volumes. How in the hell they ever thought they could make that work without mangling the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 18:28
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Never noticed! Good eye.



The music just felt too Jimi Hendrix electric guitar for a period piece set in the Napoleonic Wars for me. Glad you enjoyed it though, it did have a certain...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 14:40
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Anybody else watch the BBC series on Sharpe starring Sean Bean as the titular character? Terrible theme music and some other issues, no naval action, but still better than "Master & Commander". There...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 14:34
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Frederick Marryat was a midshipman under Cochrane and followed him for his entire naval career until he himself was made Post. He fought in over 50 naval battles at sea. He was almost cashiered from...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 09:59
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Good note; I often make this mistake myself. Even though I have a collection of very old books by him.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-01-2014, 09:44
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

Enjoy! You have quite a treat in store. Start with "Mr. Midshipman Easy" and work up to the likes of "Percival Keene".


Just want to point out that my iPad auto corrected "Dickens' " in the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 23-01-2014, 12:03
Replies: 95
Views: 8,521
Posted By minaret
Re: Master and Commander

How about "it's the dog watch because its curtailed"?
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