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I'm sure this has probably been posted about, but I just read the book "Dark Wind, a Survivor's Tale of Love and Loss", by Gordon Chaplin, and I think it would be a great book for anyone to read who is thinking about going out on an offshore cruise without the proper experience, equipment, knowledge, and mindset.
I got mad reading it, thinking how many people who don't sail, read this book, and now think everyone who goes to sea in a cruising sailboat is suicidal, or stupid.
Anyway, a good book to check out from the library (I'm glad I didn't buy it and send money to this moron) and see a real world ending for someone who thinks luck will cover all of the contingencies.
I won't spoil it anymore than the jacket cover does, by saying, it is a good example of why you don't sail to isolated islands in the Pacific during Typhoon season (I'm not really sure the author even knew what a typhoon was, before setting out).
I got mad reading it, thinking how many people who don't sail, read this book, and now think everyone who goes to sea in a cruising sailboat is suicidal, or stupid.
Anyway, a good book to check out from the library (I'm glad I didn't buy it and send money to this moron) and see a real world ending for someone who thinks luck will cover all of the contingencies.
I won't spoil it anymore than the jacket cover does, by saying, it is a good example of why you don't sail to isolated islands in the Pacific during Typhoon season (I'm not really sure the author even knew what a typhoon was, before setting out).